Contextual anaphora relations in English nominal ellipsis

• 영문명: Contextual anaphora relations in English nominal ellipsis
• 발행기관: 경희대학교 언어정보연구소
• 저자명: 박슬기(Seulkee Park) 김종복(Jong-Bok Kim) 오은정(Eunjeong Oh)
• 간행물 정보: 『언어연구』제41권 제1호, 65~90쪽, 전체 26쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 언어학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2024.03.30

영문 초록

The nominal (often called N′) ellipsis construction in English includes an understood material other than the remaining determiner. This elliptical NP tends to occur in contexts where its antecedent exhibits a similar or parallel structure. Popular analyses have derived such a construction with the postulation of the unexpressed materials and deletion operations, referring to the linguistic antecedent. However, our empirical investigation reveals a significant number of attested examples where the understood head noun refers to a discourse correlate, challenging such structure-based and movement operations. In this paper, based on such an empirical observation, we suggest a construction based analysis that allows us to refer to the inherently anaphoric (or deictic) or contextually anaphoric correlate of the understood head. This direction brings about a wider coverage of the empirical data.

목차

1. Introduction

2. Basic profile of the N-bar ellipsis

3. Previous approaches

4. A corpus investigation

5. Discussions

6. Concluding remarks

References

키워드

nominal ellipsis N′-ellipsis deep anaphors pronominal contextual anaphora