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Missing Np’s in Japanese

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 June 2016

Elizabeth A. Cowper  and
Hiroko Kimura
Elizabeth A. Cowper
Affiliation:
University of Toronto
Hiroko Kimura
Affiliation:
University of Toronto
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Extract

The following four sentences illustrate the phenomenon which, for convenience, we shall call Missing NP’s in Japanese:

The variation in the possible referents for Δ must be accounted for, whether Δ arises by a rule deleting NP’s, or is present in deep structure and interpreted by a rule of coreference assignment.

Type
Remarks/Rémarques
Information
Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique , Volume 24 , Issue 1 , Spring 1979 , pp. 41 - 47
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Linguistic Association 1986

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References

Jackendoff, R.(1972) Semantic Interpretation in Generative Grammar. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.Google Scholar
Kimura, H. (in progress, 1979) “NP-Deletion and Pronominalization in Japanese.” M.A. paper, University of Toronto.Google Scholar