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Ellipsis and reference tracking in Japanese /

In many East Asian languages, despite the prevalent occurrence of implicit reference, reference management is largely achieved without recourse to familiar agreement features. For this reason, recovering ellipted reference has been a perplexing problem in the analysis of these languages. This book e...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Nariyama, Shigeko (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Japonés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, PA : John Benjamins Pub., [2003]
Colección:Studies in language companion series ; v. 66.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Various approaches to anaphora
  • Predicate devices: argument-inferring morphemes
  • Sentence devices I: the principle of direct alignment
  • Sentence devices II: principles of argument ellipsis
  • Discourse devices: ellipsis as the unmarked representation of sameness
  • Algorithm