There are many important theoretical issues surrounding the syntax of noun phrases in classifier languages such as Chinese and Japanese. For example, because the numeral classifier (NC) occurs in several syntactic environments in Japanese (e.g., prenominally, postnominally, and floating), a question arises with regard to their relations, that is, whether or not they should be analyzed as arisin...

Treating ellipsis : two abstract categorial grammar perspectives The treatment of ellipsis in models of the syntax-semantics interface is troublesome as the linguistic material removed in the phonologic interpretation is still necessary in the semantics. Examples are particular cases of coordination, especially the ones involving verbal phrase ellipsis or subject elision. We show a way to use a...

This dissertation proposes a theory of temporal implicatures, and applies it to the study of tense in Mbya Guarani. It is composed of two parts. In the first one, I discuss the analyses of temporal implicatures developed by Musan (1995, 1997) and Magri (2009). Although I argue in favor of Magri's (2009) analysis, I reject two aspects of his proposal: that tense is universally or generically qua...

Recent work in morphology in LFG (Nordlinger 1998, Sadler 1998, Barron 1998) has highlighted the fact that NPs in some languages inflect for the traditionally verbal categories of tense, aspect or mood (henceforth TAM). This phenomenon is extremely problematic for head-driven approaches such as HPSG, which assumes that clause-level information will be associated with clausal heads, and not with...

This paper elucidates the linguistic mechanisms for resolving ellipsis (zero anaphor). The mechanisms consist of three tiers of linguistic system. [1] Japanese sentences are structured in such a way to anchor the topic, which is predominantly the subject (by Sentence devices), [2] with argument inferring cues on the verbal predicate (by Predicate devices), and [3] are cohesively sequenced with ...

This paper is concerned with case-matching effects under clausal ellipsis. We begin by considering available crosslinguistic data that indicate variation in case marking on a fragment delimited the argument structure of lexical head assigns to fragment’s correlate antecedent clause. then offer experimental evidence for preference Korean when and its may differ marking. corresponds known mandato...