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Argument ellipsis and the licensing of covert nominals in Bangla, Hindi and Malayalam
This paper investigates the licensing of Argument Ellipsis/AE in three major languages of South Asia: Bangla, Malayalam and Hindi and a recent claim made in S ̧ ener and Takahashi (2009) and Takahashi (2011, in press) that the critical factor responsible for AE in null argument languages is the abse...
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Lingua
2013
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| Online Access: | http://10.26.1.76/ks/004539.pdf |
| Summary: | This paper investigates the licensing of Argument Ellipsis/AE in three major languages of South Asia: Bangla, Malayalam and Hindi
and a recent claim made in S ̧ ener and Takahashi (2009) and Takahashi (2011, in press) that the critical factor responsible for AE in null
argument languages is the absence of verbal agreement. Observing and manipulating patterns of subject and object agreement in these
languages, it is concluded that agreement does not appear to play a role in restricting AE. The paper then considers two other alternatives
to the anti-agreement approach to AE (Hoji, 1998; Otaki, 2012), which instead relate the occurrence of AE to various interpretative and
morphological properties of nominal elements, and emphasizes the important facilitating role that the use of anaphors frequently plays in
the licensing of AE. |
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| Physical Description: | P.103--128 134 (2013) |