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Deep and surface and Greek NP-ellipsis 2 Yet another look at deep and surface anaphora
, 2013
"... (1) a. “Eclipsis est defectus dictionis, in quo necessaria verba desunt ” [‘ellipsis is a incompletion of speech in which necessary words are missing’] (St. Isidore of Sevilla, Etymologiarum, Liber I ‘De grammatica’, ch. XXXIV ‘De Vitiis’, sec. 10) b. “ellipsis, or speech by half-words, [is the pecu ..."
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(1) a. “Eclipsis est defectus dictionis, in quo necessaria verba desunt ” [‘ellipsis is a incompletion of speech in which necessary words are missing’] (St. Isidore of Sevilla, Etymologiarum, Liber I ‘De grammatica’, ch. XXXIV ‘De Vitiis’, sec. 10) b. “ellipsis, or speech by half-words, [is the peculiar talent] of ministers and politicians”
LF-Copying without LF
"... A copying approach to ellipsis is presented, whereby the locus of copying is not a level of derived syntactic structure (LF), but rather the derivation itself. The ban on prepo-sition stranding in sprouting follows without further stipulation, and other, seemingly structure sensitive, empirical gene ..."
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A copying approach to ellipsis is presented, whereby the locus of copying is not a level of derived syntactic structure (LF), but rather the derivation itself. The ban on prepo-sition stranding in sprouting follows without further stipulation, and other, seemingly structure sensitive, empirical generalizations about elliptical constructions, including the preposition stranding generalization, follow naturally as well. Destructive operations which ‘repair ’ non-identical antecedents are recast in terms of exact identity of deriva-tions with parameters. In the context of a compositional semantic interpretation scheme, the derivational copying approach to ellipsis presented here is revealed to be a particular instance of a proform theory, thus showing that the distinctions between, and arguments about, syntactic and semantic theories of ellipsis need to be revisited.
Gender mismatches under nominal ellipsis
"... Masculine/feminine pairs of human-denoting nouns in Greek fall into three distinct classes under predicative ellipsis: those that license ellipsis of their counterpart regardless of gender, those that only license ellipsis of a same-gendered noun, and those in which the masculine noun of the pair li ..."
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Masculine/feminine pairs of human-denoting nouns in Greek fall into three distinct classes under predicative ellipsis: those that license ellipsis of their counterpart regardless of gender, those that only license ellipsis of a same-gendered noun, and those in which the masculine noun of the pair licenses ellipsis of the feminine version, but not vice versa. The three classes are uniform in disallowing any gender mismatched ellipses in argu-ment uses, however. This differential behavior of gender in nominal ellip-sis can be captured by positing that human-denoting nouns in Greek, while syntactically and morphological uniform in showing a masculine/feminine contrast, do not all encode this contrast in their semantics. Under a seman-tic identity theory of ellipsis, the attested variation in nominal ellipses in Greek is posited to derive from the fact that nominal ellipsis has two pos-sible sources: a nominal constituent can be elided (true ellipsis), or a null nominal proform can be used (model-theoretic anaphora). It is well understood that the analysis of elliptical phenomena has the potential
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"... ents, and to ite this paper rsion of this ela Depiante n Romance aris, and the International Conference on Greek Linguistics 10 in Komotini for their comments and suggestions, and to Tasos Chatzikonstantinou, Katerina Chatzopoulou, Nikos Nestoras, and Nektarios Morakalis for judgments beyond the cal ..."
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ents, and to ite this paper rsion of this ela Depiante n Romance aris, and the International Conference on Greek Linguistics 10 in Komotini for their comments and suggestions, and to Tasos Chatzikonstantinou, Katerina Chatzopoulou, Nikos Nestoras, and Nektarios Morakalis for judgments beyond the call of duty. * Tel.: þ1 7737028523. § Primary thanks go to Anastasia Giannakidou for many years of discussion of these topics and for her careful and patient judgm Mark Baltin for organizing and inviting me to present at the session at the LSA in Pittsburgh which provided the primary impetus to wr (and for his patience in its gestation). Special thanks also to the two reviewers for Lingua, whose in depth comments on the first ve have helped me clarify my thinking in a number of places and led to a substantial rethinking of the analysis. Additional thanks to Marc for introducing me to these topics and discussing them with me over many years, to Andrés Saab, to the students in my seminar o syntax in the spring of 2010 for making me try to make sense of these facts, to audiences at the LSA, MIT, Stanford, Chicago, PKeywords: Ellipsis; Gender; Model-theoretic anaphora; Greek It is well understood that the analysis of elliptical phenomena has the potential to inform our understanding of the
