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10.1 “VP-Ellipsis” in Mandarin Chinese 10.1 “VP-Ellipsis” in Mandarin Chinese
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10.2 Deriving the Null Elements 10.2 Deriving the Null Elements
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10.3 Deletion 10.3 Deletion
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10.3.1 A PF Deletion Alternative 10.3.1 A PF Deletion Alternative
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10.3.2 The Absence of an Object 10.3.2 The Absence of an Object
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10.4 The Case Requirement on Empty Categories 10.4 The Case Requirement on Empty Categories
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10.5 Deletion vs. Base Generation 10.5 Deletion vs. Base Generation
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Notes Notes
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References References
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10 Ellipsis and Missing Objects
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Published:May 2008
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Abstract
Ellipsis phenomena in natural language involve instances of meaning without sound as they do, and their interpretation requires the presence of some covert structure. The central issue for a theory of ellipsis is to determine how this structure is constructed. Within generative grammar, two competing theories have been proposed: a PF deletion approach and an interpretive approach. In the former, the ellipsis results from the deletion of a fully specified construct in forming PF, whereas in the latter, the ellipsis site contains a lexically empty categorial structure whose interpretation is derived from a corresponding structure containing lexical material. Drawing on data from Mandarin Chinese, this chapter argues in favor of the interpretive approach. It considers two types of elliptical constructions in Chinese: the Aux-construction, in which ellipsis arises after an auxiliary in the second conjunct, and the V-construction, in which ellipsis involves a missing object.
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