Spanish Possessive Pronouns and Nominal Ellipsis

This paper discusses two particles that mark possession in Ishkashimi: -no and -noy. These markers are not in free variation; -noy can only mark adnominal possession, while -no can mark external possession. This will be argued for on the basis of distributional and interpretational differences between the two markers. Unlike the marker -noy, -no can appear in the context of nominal ellipsis and possessive predicates. A -noy-marked possessor has to be adjacent to the possessed noun and precede it; a -no-marked possessor does not have these adjacency requirements. In the context of possessor doubling, -noy is only compatible with 3rd person. In the case of negation, when the existence of the possessed is denied, only the -no marker is licensed. The differences in the distribution of the two markers correlate with their morphological differences; unlike -no, -noy is morphologically complex and encodes the person of the possessor.

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Grammatical Modeling of a Nominal Ellipsis Grammar for Spanish

Communications in Computer and Information Science - Formalising Natural Languages: Applications to Natural Language Processing and Digital Humanities ◽

10.1007/978-3-030-70629-6_8 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 85-95

Author(s):

Hazel Barahona ◽

Walter Koza

Keyword(s):

Nominal Ellipsis

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Dutch

The Oxford Handbook of Ellipsis ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198712398.013.37 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 720-764

Author(s):

Norbert Corver ◽

Marjo van Koppen

Keyword(s):

Final Section ◽

Right Node Raising ◽

Enormous Amount ◽

Vp Ellipsis ◽

Nominal Ellipsis ◽

Null Complement Anaphora ◽

Comparative Deletion

This chapter discusses ellipsis in Dutch and the dialects of Dutch. It provides detailed information on the major types of ellipsis as they have been presented in Part III of this handbook: gapping and stripping, predicate ellipsis (VP-ellipsis and pseudogapping), Conjunction Reduction and Right-Node Raising, sluicing, fragments, nominal ellipsis, Comparative Deletion, and Null Complement Anaphora. It discusses the main insights from the literature as well as new observations with respect to these constructions. The final section shows that the Dutch dialects display an enormous amount of variation concerning ellipsis constructions. In particular, it examines the variation in NP-ellipsis with possessive, demonstrative, and adjectival remnants and variation with respect to sluicing.

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