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 NP Ellipsis and Parameters: An Acquisitional Perspective
Koji Sugisaki
416-425 (complete pdf)
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This study presents experimental evidence that the grammar of young Japanese-speaking children permits the sloppy-identity interpretation of phonologically null arguments. This finding is in conformity with recent, minimalist approaches to Hale's (1983) Configurationality Parameter that postulate a tight connection between the possibility of noun-phrase ellipsis and the availability of scrambling (Oku 1998, Saito 2003).


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Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America (GALANA)
edited by Alyona Belikova, Luisa Meroni, and Mari Umeda

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ISBN 978-1-57473-419-5 library binding
vii + 490 pages
publication date: 2007
published by Cascadilla Proceedings Project, Somerville, MA, USA
Printed edition: $320.00
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