On the Nature of the Syntactic Condition on Ellipsis Sites : A View from Child English
On the Nature of the Syntactic Condition on Ellipsis Sites : A View from Child English
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省略位点句法条件的本质:儿童英语的观点
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2017
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Hisao Kurokami
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K. Sugisaki;Hisao Kurokami
According to Merchant (2016), three questions have occupied much of the theoretical literature analyzing these ellipsis structures. The first is called the structure question, which asks whether there is unpronounced syntactic structure internal to the ellipsis site. The second question is called the identity question, which addresses the relationship between the understood material in ellipsis and its antecedent. The third question is known as the licensing question, which inquires about the nature of the heads, positions, or structures that allow for ellipsis, as well as the locality conditions on the relation between these structures and the elided parts. Theoretical studies on ellipsis have centered on the first two questions, and the third question, which concerns the syntactic licensing on ellipsis, has not attracted as much attention as the questions about the syntax within the ellipsis site and its identification. In light of this background, the present study attempts to contribute to the question concerning the licensing of ellipsis by bringing evidence from a novel source: child language acquisition. More specifically, we present evidence from the acquisition of English that agreement errors which are robustly attested with