2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A Study on the Interface between Syntax and Semantics on Ellpisis
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22520488
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
English linguistics
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| Research Institution | Tohoku University |
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Principal Investigator |
SHIMA Etsuro 東北大学, 大学院・文学研究科, 准教授 (50302063)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2010 – 2012
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| Keywords | 省略 / 削除 / コピー / 同一性条件 / 再分析 |
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| Research Abstract |
Ellipsis is an instance of anaphora in which a missing expression is able to find an antecedent in the surrounding discourse. I have considered how the meaning of the ellipsis is recovered from its antecedent by investigating various kinds of ellipsis in English. My research has revealed that ellipsis is derived from the deletion operation at the phonological component or the copy operation at the semantic component. I have also argued that there are ellipsis sites that hold unpronouncedpro-form.
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