this paper presents an investigation of the structure of persian clauses which display verb phrase ellipsis. to this end, verb phrase ellipsis in persian will be discussed in the light of the two theoretically significant approaches to ellipsis, namely, structural versus non-structural. drawing on data from persian and running the independently devised syntactic tests, we will argue that the or...

Subject ellipsis is one of the characteristics of informal English. The investigation of subject ellipsis in corpora thus reveals an abundance of pragmatic and extralinguistic information associated with subject ellipsis that enhances natural language understanding. In essence, the presence of subject ellipsis conveys an ‘informal’ conversation involving 1) an informal ‘Topic’ as well as famili...

This paper argues that elliptical VPs do not necessarily present cases of VP ellipsis. Certain relative clauses that contain elliptical VPs are analysed as instances of transitive verb phrase ellipsis. A storing account of ellipsis resolution is given. Resolution of TVP ellipsis is achieved by resolving a binary relation that derives from an antecedent TVP. This avoids the problem of antecedent...

Much work on ellipsis has been conducted using data from English, and many widely acknowledged types of ellipsis exist in English. The extent to which the named ellipsis mechanisms exist in other languages is, though, often not clear. This manuscript surveys ellipsis in Mandarin Chinese using a dependency-based approach to syntax. It probes to see which ellipsis mechanisms exist in Mandarin. Th...

‘As if’ constructions have been analyzed as only verbal (Bücking 2017) or idiomatic (Bledin & Srinivas 2019, 2020). We argue that ‘as the same distribution any clausal similative (i.e. ‘as’ construction): they can associate with arguments propositions. And we are a common and productive cross-linguistic phenomenon, reliably formed relativizer; question subordinator; X-marking. thus present ...

This paper examines parallels in semantic structure between noun phrases and verbal predicates in constructions in which they are mutually constraining and contribute to the expression of LEXICAL ASPECT and GRAMMATICAL ASPECT. One of the main claims pursued here is that such interactions are semantically motivated: it is the nominal argument linked to the Incremental Theme role that interacts w...

This paper presents the results of a study double object constructions containing cognate verbs English tell and Norwegian fortelle, based on data from English–Norwegian Parallel Corpus. The show that there is certain degree correspondence between two in with nominal direct objects, less mutual finite clausal very little objects form speech, none whatsoever case non-finite which only occur tell...

Abstract This study focused mainly on the shifts of the grammatical cohesion in texts translated from English into Persian. It aimed to identify the grammatical cohesive devices (GCDs) in ST and TT separately, based on Halliday and Hassn's Model (1976), determine the number of occurrences of GCDs in two texts and finally, illustrate types of shifts of grammatical cohesion and strategies used in...

Cross-linguistically, no language has a dedicated generic article. To address why this is, I decompose GEN into its quantificational and modal components locate them inside nominal structure. Adopting an event licensing analysis of pre- post-verbal bare subjects in Modern Hebrew, use the restriction pre-verbal to interpretations unacceptability singulars argue that component is best analyzed as...

The relevance of collateral texts for building knowledge-based visual information systems is discussed, with reference to moving images of dance. The knowledge acquisition technique Protocol Analysis is applied to elicit verbal reports from experts watching moving images with complex contents and interwoven meanings. These reports are analysed at lexical, clausal and discourse levels, using tex...