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Phases and argument ellipsis in Japanese

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Author	Sakamoto, Yuta
Copyright Year	2016
Abstract	This article investigates the nature of Japanese null arguments. Although it has been more or less standardly assumed that Japanese null arguments are empty pronouns, recent literature has shown that they can also be derived via argument ellipsis based on the fact that they can yield readings that pronouns generally cannot support (Oku in A theory of selection and reconstruction in the minimalist program, 1998; Saito in Lang Res 43: 203–227, 2007; Takahashi in: Miyagawa and Saito (eds) The Oxford handbook of Japanese linguistics, Oxford University Press, New York, 2008a, in Linguist Inq 39:307–326, 2008b, among others). Most of the literature on argument ellipsis has discussed its availability, while less attention has been paid to the issue of the conditions under which ellipsis of arguments is possible. This article focuses on this issue. Specifically, building on Abe’s (in: Hoshi (ed.) The dynamics of the language faculty: Perspectives from linguistics and cognitive neuroscience, Kuroshio Publishers, Tokyo, 2009) observation that argument ellipsis is not freely available, I argue that argument ellipsis is locally phase-constrained (cf. Chomsky in Martin et al. (eds) Step by step: Essays on minimalist syntax in honor of Howard Lasnik, MIT, Cambridge, 2000; in Kenstowicz (ed) Ken Hale: A life in language, MIT, Cambridge, 2001, and seq.), developing a particular phase-based approach to argument ellipsis which is shown to have consequences for Abe’s (in: Hoshi (ed.) The dynamics of the language faculty: Perspectives from linguistics and cognitive neuroscience, Kuroshio Publishers, Tokyo, 2009) anti-c-command generalization regarding the availability of argument ellipsis and Takahashi’s (in: Laurençot (eds) University of Connecticut working papers in linguistics 5, University of Connecticut, Storrs, 1996a; in: Uchibori and Yatsushiro (eds) University of Connecticut working papers in linguistics 7: Papers in honor of Mamoru Saito, University of Connecticut, Storrs, 1996b) “Antecedent-Contained Deletion” in Japanese. The approach developed in this article thus provides a tool which contributes to our understanding of the context in which the ellipsis-indicating readings are/are not available with Japanese null arguments.
Starting Page	243
Ending Page	274
Page Count	32
File Format	PDF
ISSN	09258558
Journal	Journal of East Asian Linguistics
Volume Number	25
Issue Number	3
e-ISSN	15728560
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2016-07-19
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Phases Argument ellipsis Antecedent-contained deletion Pro Comparative Linguistics Japanese Chinese Theoretical Languages Language and Literature
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Linguistics and Language History and Philosophy of Science

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