Ellipsis: licensing, structure and identity
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verb phrase ellipsis in persian: the questions of identity and licensing
this paper presents an attempt to analyze the verb phrase ellipsis in persian in terms of the questions of identity and licensing. assuming a minimalist framework for the analysis, it is argued that verb phrase ellipsis in persian is structurally licensed by a governing head which takes vp as its complement, through an algorithm of e(llipsis)-feature deletion at pf. it is also shown that struct...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Linguistic Review
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0167-6318,1613-3676
DOI: 10.1515/tlr-2016-0010