Verb-stranding verb phrase ellipsis in Japanese

The main aim of this article is to argue that Japanese allows verb-stranding verb phrase ellipsis (VVPE). For this purpose, I examine data involving null adjuncts, and propose a new generalization about the distribution of null adjuncts, which can easily be accounted for if VVPE is available in Japa...

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Published inJournal of East Asian linguistics Vol. 25; no. 2; pp. 113 - 142
Main Author Funakoshi, Kenshi
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Dordrecht Springer 01.05.2016
Springer Netherlands
Subjects
Adjunct clauses
Adverbials
Chinese
Comic books
Comparative Linguistics
Ellipsis
Grammatical clauses
Japanese
Language and Literature
Linguistics
Object pronouns
Sentences
Social Sciences
Theoretical Linguistics
Verb phrases
Verbs
Argument ellipsis
V-stranding VP-ellipsis
Null adjuncts
Japanese
Verb movement
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Summary:The main aim of this article is to argue that Japanese allows verb-stranding verb phrase ellipsis (VVPE). For this purpose, I examine data involving null adjuncts, and propose a new generalization about the distribution of null adjuncts, which can easily be accounted for if VVPE is available in Japanese. Furthermore, I demonstrate that null adjunct sentences with overt objects are subject to the same constraint as pseudogapping sentences in English are. Given that pseudogapping is a particular instance of VP-ellipsis (Jayaseelan, in Linguist Anal 20:64–81, 1990; Lasnik, in Papers on minimalist syntax, MIT working papers in linguistics, 1995, Fragments: Studies in ellipsis and gapping, 1999), this strongly suggests that null adjunct sentences involve VP-ellipsis.
ISSN:0925-8558
1572-8560
DOI:10.1007/s10831-016-9143-8