Argument Ellipsis in Javanese and Voice Agreement

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Abstract Argument ellipsis in Javanese exhibits a subject‐object asymmetry with respect to sloppy/quantificational interpretations. Adopting the LF ‐Copy theory of null arguments developed in Japanese and Turkish (Oku 1998, Takahashi 2008a, b, Şener and Takahashi 2010), I argue that this asymmetry falls out from the dyadic voice agreement system in Javanese where a single DP is specifically picked up by voice prefixes on v to mark the Actor‐Topic or Theme‐Topic alignments. I show that this agreement blocks the LF ‐Copy process from targeting empty subject positions. This result suggests that voice agreement is to be included in the general theory of agreement, together with φ‐agreement.

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