Licensing of nominal ellipsis in Hungarian possessives
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22159184 |
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| Authors | Eszter Ronai (0000-0003-1578-0938, University of Chicago), Laura Stigliano (0000-0002-1280-8344, University of Chicago) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 600 |
| Publication date | 2021-03-20 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2473-8689 • E-ISSN: 2473-8689 |
| Publisher | Linguistic Society of America (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.3765/plsa.v6i1.4994 |
| OpenAlex | W3138448877 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
We argue, based on novel data, that the possessor head (Poss) can license ellipsis of its complement in Hungarian. That is, contra existing claims in the literature, possessor morphology can survive nominal ellipsis and be stranded on the remnant. Adopting Saab & Lipták (2016)’s of ellipsis licensing, we propose that there is variation in the size of the ellipsis site in Hungarian: nominal ellipsis can be licensed by either Num or Poss. We further propose that nominal ellipsis licensed by Poss can capture a previously unanalyzed variation in the Hungarian possessive pronoun paradigm. Specifically, the two variants of possessive pronouns correspond to two different structures: one is the anaphoric possessive (see Dékány 2015), while the other exists only as a consequence of nominal ellipsis, which, as we show, is a productive possibility
Linguistics · Physics · Possessive · Computer Science · Gender Studies in Language · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation · Artificial Intelligence
| Highly cited | No |
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