V-stranding with null arguments in coordination and its interpretation
0
조회
0
다운로드
0
인용
0
참고문헌
키워드
초록
This paper explores the reasons why V-stranding negative replies allow the interpretation that negates every argument in the antecedent coordinate clause as noted in Russian by Landau (2021). We observed a similar pattern in Korean, where VP ellipsis is not attested, thus V-stranding VP ellipsis is not an analytic option. For an alternative account of the relevant construction, we propose an argument ellipsis analysis with De Morgan’s laws syntactically implemented via negation lowering into coordination. In constructions observing De Morgan’s laws, the negation of a disjunction is interpreted as the conjunction of the negations while the negation of a conjunction is construed as the disjunction of the negations. We generalize that in the absence of functional heads licensing null categories, negation does not undergo lowering, exerting no influence on the coordinator combining null arguments in V-stranding constructions. This yields a conjunctive interpretation by default, generating a denotation where every conjunct is negated. Effectively, the syntactic process of negation lowering accompanied by coordinator switch feeds the interpretations in compliance with De Morgan’s laws, although this process is constrained by diverse configurations such as the presence of adverbial expressions.
Abstract
This paper explores the reasons why V-stranding negative replies allow the interpretation that negates every argument in the antecedent coordinate clause as noted in Russian by Landau (2021). We observed a similar pattern in Korean, where VP ellipsis is not attested, thus V-stranding VP ellipsis is not an analytic option. For an alternative account of the relevant construction, we propose an argument ellipsis analysis with De Morgan’s laws syntactically implemented via negation lowering into coordination. In constructions observing De Morgan’s laws, the negation of a disjunction is interpreted as the conjunction of the negations while the negation of a conjunction is construed as the disjunction of the negations. We generalize that in the absence of functional heads licensing null categories, negation does not undergo lowering, exerting no influence on the coordinator combining null arguments in V-stranding constructions. This yields a conjunctive interpretation by default, generating a denotation where every conjunct is negated. Effectively, the syntactic process of negation lowering accompanied by coordinator switch feeds the interpretations in compliance with De Morgan’s laws, although this process is constrained by diverse configurations such as the presence of adverbial expressions.
참고문헌 (22)
- Barbosa, Pilar P., "pro as a minimal nP : Toward a unified approach to pro-drop", Linguistic Inquiry, 53(3), pp.487~526 (2019)
- Chao, Wynn, "On ellipsis", PhD, pp.1987
- Chomsky, Noam, "Syntactic structures" (1957), Mouton
- Fillmore, Charles, "Pragmatically controlled zero anaphora", Proceedings of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 12, pp.95~107 (1986)
- Gribanova, Vera, "A new argument for verb-stranding verb phrase ellipsis", Linguistic Inquiry, 44(1), pp.145~157 (2013)
- Grice, H. Paul, "Syntax and semantics", pp.41~58 (1975), Academic Press
- Huang, C. -T. James, "Remarks on empty categories in Chinese", Linguistic Inquiry, 18(2), pp.321~337 (1987)
- Huang, C. -T. James, "Comments on Hasegawa’s paper", Proceedings of Japanese syntax workshop: Issues on empty categories, pp.77~93 (1988), Connecticut College
- Huang, C. -T. James, "Principles and parameters in comparative grammar", pp.56~76 (1991), The MIT Press
- Krivochen, Diego Gabriel, "De Morgan’s laws and NEG-raising : A syntactic view", Linguistic Frontiers, 1(2), pp.112~121 (2019)
- Kurafuji, Takeo, "Words and their twists 6, A collection of memorials to Professor Sachiko Shimazu", pp.227~242 (2018), Ritsumeikan University
- Laka, Itziar, "Negation in syntax: On the nature of functional categories and projections", PhD, pp.1990
- Landau, Idan, "On the non-existence of verb-stranding VP-ellipsis", Linguistic Inquiry, 51(2), pp.341~365 (2020)
- Landau, Idan, "Ellipsis with a coordinated antecedent : An alternative to V-stranding VP-ellipsis", Studia Linguistica, 75(1), pp.1~23 (2021)
- 이우승, "Argument Ellipsis vs. V-Stranding VP Ellipsis: Evidence from Conjunctive", Disjunctive Constructions in Korean, 2021, pp.31(4), 515~536[DOI]
- Li, Yen-Hui Audrey, "Born empty", Lingua, 151(Part A), pp.43~68 (2014)
- Otani, Kazuyo, "V-raising and VP-ellipsis", Linguistic Inquiry, 22(2), pp.345~358 (1991)
- Park, Bum-Sik, "When can scope economy be violated?", Proceedings of the 4th GLOW in Asia 2003, Generative Grammar in a broader perspective, pp.525~544 (2003), Hankwukmwunhwasa
- Pesetsky, David, "Zero syntax" (1995), The MIT Press
- Saito, Mamoru, "Ellipsis and pronominal reference in Japanese clefts", Nanzan Linguistics, 1(21-50), pp.21~50 (2004), Nanzan University
- Takahashi, Daiko, "Quantificational null objects and argument ellipsis", Linguistic Inquiry, 39(2), pp.307~326 (2008)
- Yang, Myung-Hee, "Hyentay Kwuke Tayyonge-ey kwanhan yenkwu (A study on the substitutes in the modern Korean language)", PhD, pp.1996