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- Title
On the (non)-existence of verb-stranding ellipsis in Chinese.
- Authors
Hsiao-Hung Iris Wu
- Abstract
This paper develops the empirical and theoretical basis for the necessity in admitting the operation of verb-stranding ellipsis (VVPE) in Chinese. I present new arguments showing that, though two analytic possibilities -- null argument analysis and VVPE analysis -- are in principle available in the grammar of Chinese, they can be differentiated in specific syntactic environments. In particular, I show that the existing null argument approaches would have difficulty in accounting for the following facts: disjunction of multi-constituent elements under negation, the difference of island effects in the presence of a linguistic antecedent, the verb identity requirement and the possibility of having part of the idiomatic expression as the missing gap. Therefore, it is argued that VVPE must remain a viable syntactic operation in Chinese when a null object analysis is unavailable.
- Subjects
ELLIPSIS (Grammar); VERB phrases; VERBS; CHINESE language; SINO-Tibetan languages
- Publication
International Journal of Chinese Linguistics, 2016, Vol 3, Issue 1, p79
- ISSN
2213-8706
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1075/ijchl.3.1.03wu