ELLIPSIS OF ARGUMENTS IN JAPANESE AND TURKISH

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In this paper we consider the phenomenon of argument ellipsis, where arguments such as subjects and objects are elided under identity with antecedents nearby. Several researchers including Kim (1999), Oku (1998), Otani and Whitman (1991) have argued in one way or another that some null argument constructions are best analyzed as involving ellipsis rather than empty pronouns. For instance, suppose that the null object construction in (1b) is preceded by (1a), and that the null object in (1b) is somehow anaphoric to the object in (1a). In this context, (1b) is ambiguous between the two readings in (2): (1b) means either that Hanako hates Taro’s mother, which is called the strict reading, or that Hanako hates her own mother, which is called the sloppy reading.

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