Verb-phrase ellipsis and complex predicates in Hindi-Urdu

Manetta, Emily

doi:10.1007/s11049-018-9429-9

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“…However, more recently, a number of investigations have shown that Oku's initial generalizations are not well founded and that there are many instances in which missing adjuncts can in fact be interpreted in the presence of negation. Funakoshi 2016 demonstrates this well with Japanese, and Manetta 2019 shows parallel patterns in Hindi. In both languages, when certain slight adjustments are made to pairs such as (7a, b), the missing‐adjunct interpretation becomes available.…”

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In defense of verb‐stranding VP ellipsis

Simpson

2023

Syntax

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This remark offers arguments against recent challenges to analyses that postulate verb‐stranding VP ellipsis (Idan Landau, “On the nonexistence of verb‐stranding VP‐ellipsis,” 2020, Linguistic Inquiry 51.2.341–365; Satoshi Oku, “A note on ellipsis‐resistant constituents,” 2016, Nanzan Linguistics 11.56–70). The article defends the verb‐stranding‐VP‐ellipsis hypothesis, arguing that it remains the strongest hypothesis available to account for many instances of ellipsis with null objects in languages such as Hindi, Bangla, and Japanese.

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Section: Vsvpe and The Interpretation Of Adjunctsmentioning

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In defense of verb‐stranding VP ellipsis

Simpson

2023

Syntax

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“…It also becomes increasingly clear that when multiple sizes of constituents may be elided, resulting in effectively identical strings, pragmatic, prosodic, and information-structural factors may be at work conditioning the way in which speakers parse structures (Merchant 2018;Manetta 2018;Gribanova, 2020). The diversity and degree of impact of these factors seems as yet poorly understood (though see Simpson (2021) for some recent thinking on which factors might be relevant).…”

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“…One of the more intriguing controversies concerning ellipsis in recent work centers on the licensing of head-stranding ellipsis and, by extension, the nature of head movement itself. On one side of this debate is over thirty years of research on verb-stranding verb phrase ellipsis (VPE), a variety of head-stranding ellipsis identified in languages as diverse as Irish (McCloskey 1991), Hebrew (Doron 1999;Goldberg 2005), Portuguese (Martins 1994), Russian (Gribanova 2013a, b), Hindi-Urdu (Manetta 2018), Greek (Merchant 2018) and Uzbek (Gribanova 2020) (among others). On the other side, in a recent series of articles, Landau (2018;2020a,b) argues against the existence of verb-stranding VPE altogether.…”

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“…One productive approach to this debate taken recently is to identify new, fine-grained syntactic diagnostics which definitively identify instances of verb-stranding ellipsis in which the verb undergoes movement out of the elided constituent and which definitively differentiate them from other types of ellipsis processes (such as AE) (e.g. Simpson, Choudhury, and Menon 2013;Manetta 2018;Merchant 2018;Gribanova 2020). This has been a highly productive domain of research and continues to provide new diagnostic tools in new languages (e.g.…”

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Verb-second and the verb-stranding verb phrase ellipsis debate

Manetta

2021

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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Verb-stranding verb phrase ellipsis (VPE), when a verb is stranded outside of the VP-sized ellipsis site in which it originated, has been identified in a number of languages (Irish, McCloskey 1991; Hebrew, Doron 1991, Goldberg 2005; Greek, Merchant 2018; Uzbek, Gribanova 2019, i.a.), and has been invoked productively in analyses investigating the position to which verbs move and the timing of verb movement in the grammar. Recently, Landau (2018, 2019, to appear) proposes a phase-based negative licensing condition on head-stranding ellipsis that precludes verb-stranding VPE altogether. He claims that apparent verb-stranding VPE must be reanalyzed either as Argument Ellipsis (Oku 1998; Kim 1999; Takahashi 2008), or a clause-sized ellipsis that strands main verbs (Gribanova 2017). This article approaches this debate through an analysis of head movement and head-stranding ellipsis in the Indic verb-second (V2) language Kashmiri, arguing that Landau’s phase-based approach encounters empirical challenges in accounting for variation in the presentation of ellipsis in V2 languages and requires an unconventional approach to V2, at odds with recent accounts of Kashmiri V2 (Bhatt 1999; Munshi and Bhatt 2009; Manetta 2011) and mainstream views of V2 generally (e.g. Holmberg 1986; Travis 1991; Vikner 1995; Zwart 1997). While the present article argues in favor of the standard account of ellipsis (Merchant 2001, 2008), we affirm the important contribution of Landau’s work in identifying challenges facing any account of head-stranding ellipsis licensing. At issue is the larger question of whether and how verb-stranding ellipses can be used to better understand head movement.

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“…As far as many other languages, auxiliaries in the Urdu language hold a significant position as far as grammar is concerned, however, in this paper, its syntactic and semantic nature is investigated. From earlier studies, it is observed that many scholars especially grammarians stated Hona as the only auxiliary that determines the tense (Naseer, 2010, Schmidt, 1999Butt & Ramchand, 2001;Manetta, 2019) and they opine that tenses are represented through multiple forms of Hona e.g., past, present and future. On the basis of their findings, Ehsan and Butt (2020) argued that Urdu auxiliary Hona only determines the tense-aspect in the sentence.…”

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Grammatical and Syntactical Functions of Auxiliaries in English and Urdu

Aziz

Saleem

Maqsood

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The current study investigates grammatical and syntactical functions of auxiliaries in Urdu and English to draw certain distinctions regarding the behavior, syntactic representation and semantic content auxiliaries add to the main verbs (Vs) through the X-bar theory as a theoretical framework within the minimalist program (MP). The data of the current research were collected from authentic sources (Urdu and English text books and grammars) to consider a diverse range of possible usage of Urdu and English auxiliaries. 200 sentences extracted from textbooks and grammars were analyzed grammatically in terms of morphology, and syntax (through tree-representation and their movement). The findings indicate sharp differences related to the syntactic position of auxiliaries in Urdu and English. In Urdu, auxiliaries always occupy their position after the main verbs in a sentence and their position is fixed and also have the ability to mark number (singular & plural) and gender (masculine & feminine). In contrast, English auxiliaries can only mark number. Another sharp difference is observed in the question formation process. In Urdu, unlike English, auxiliaries cannot be moved from its latent position towards the specifier position at the beginning of the sentence to construct question structures, because, if it happens, the sentence is considered ungrammatical which may result in the violation of MP. The findings of the study would prove helpful for understanding the semantic, grammatical and syntactical nature and behavior of auxiliaries comparatively in Urdu and English.

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Verb-phrase ellipsis and complex predicates in Hindi-Urdu

Cited by 5 publications

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In defense of verb‐stranding VP ellipsis

In defense of verb‐stranding VP ellipsis

Verb-second and the verb-stranding verb phrase ellipsis debate

Grammatical and Syntactical Functions of Auxiliaries in English and Urdu

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