This paper presents an HPSG formalisation of how the ellipsis of casemarking affects the focus of the clause in Japanese. We restrict our attention to the nominative and accusative markers ga and o, and in view of the fact that the ellipsis effects on focushood vary between 1) ga and o and 2) different argument structures of the head verb, develop an essentially lexicalist account that combines...

We discuss the treatment of ellipsis in a spoken language route planning enquiry service which uses the Core Language Engine (CLE) as its linguistic processor. We show how use of the CLE allows us to separate the interpretation of ellipsis in a dialogue context from the more general issue of dialogue management in a dialogue context and, especially, to factor out the linguistic innuences on suc...

Konuşma dilinde meydana gelen daha sonra yazı diline de sirayet eden ellipsis, dilde ekonomi yasası gereği tekrarlardan kaçınmak, iletişimi etkili hâle getirmek için belli kurallar çerçevesinde gerçekleşen bir dil olayıdır. Cümle içerisinde derin yapıda bırakılan birimlerin fark edilmesi metnin biçimsel ve anlamsal yapısının iyi anlaşılmasına katkı sağlar. Özellikle lehçeden başka lehçeye yapıl...

This paper analyses the syntax and semantics of English comparatives, and some types of ellipsis. It improves on other recent analyses in the computational linguistics literature in three respects: (i) it uses no treeor logical-form rewriting devices in building meaning representations (ii) this results in a fully reversible linguistic description, equally suited for analysis or generation (iii...

Jason Merchant (2004, and Chap. 3, this volume) proposes to account for all speech acts performed with “fragments,” whether in discourse-initial position or otherwise, by appealing to syntactic ellipsis. Though his proposal is insightful, I offer empirical and methodological considerations against it. Empirical problems include: (a) His alleged “elliptical sentences” do not embed the way they s...