Colloquium New Series 020
※ 國立清華大學語言所新第020次專題演講※
講者：Yuyun Iris Wang (Ming Chuan University)
題目：The complexity of the invisible NP
日期：2016年10月19日 (星期三)
時間：中午12時30分 開始
地點：人社院 B305 教室
摘要：This talk focuses on two issues: the nature of English one and two types of NP-ellipses. First, I argue that English one should not be treated as a pro-form in NP-ellipsis (cf. Ross 1967, Jackendoff 1977). Instead, following Alexiadou & Gengel (2012) and Kayne (2015), English one should be analyzed as a kind of classifier which brings about the interpretation of partitivity and licenses the invisible NP in NP-ellipsis. To be more specific, since the adjective and some of the determiners in English cannot take partitive form by themselves, one-insertion is therefore obligatory in the English NP-ellipsis construction. Second, two types of NP-ellipsis should be distinguished according to their corresponding licensors: partitive and attributive. I propose that cross-linguistically, the licensors of the invisible noun in NP-ellipsis must be morphologically overt, including the classifier/determiner, the attributive marker, and the agreement marker. This account is supported by the patterns observed in the NP-ellipsis sentences in Chinese, in which the invisible nouns are licensed either by the classifier or by the modificational marker de. The overt morphological cues thus license the invisible NPs.
講者：Yuyun Iris Wang (Ming Chuan University)
題目：The complexity of the invisible NP
日期：2016年10月19日 (星期三)
時間：中午12時30分 開始
地點：人社院 B305 教室
摘要：This talk focuses on two issues: the nature of English one and two types of NP-ellipses. First, I argue that English one should not be treated as a pro-form in NP-ellipsis (cf. Ross 1967, Jackendoff 1977). Instead, following Alexiadou & Gengel (2012) and Kayne (2015), English one should be analyzed as a kind of classifier which brings about the interpretation of partitivity and licenses the invisible NP in NP-ellipsis. To be more specific, since the adjective and some of the determiners in English cannot take partitive form by themselves, one-insertion is therefore obligatory in the English NP-ellipsis construction. Second, two types of NP-ellipsis should be distinguished according to their corresponding licensors: partitive and attributive. I propose that cross-linguistically, the licensors of the invisible noun in NP-ellipsis must be morphologically overt, including the classifier/determiner, the attributive marker, and the agreement marker. This account is supported by the patterns observed in the NP-ellipsis sentences in Chinese, in which the invisible nouns are licensed either by the classifier or by the modificational marker de. The overt morphological cues thus license the invisible NPs.