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Article published In: Lingvisticæ Investigationes
Vol. 41:2 (2018) ► pp.179–212

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Typical event sequences as licensors of direct object ellipsis in Russian

 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Published online: 4 February 2019
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https://doi.org/10.1075/li.00019.mcs
Abstract
This paper extends the computationally-oriented theory of ellipsis presented in McShane’s A Theory of Ellipsis ( 2005. A Theory of Ellipsis. Oxford University Press.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar) by introducing the feature typical event sequence. It is argued that, in Russian, the presence of a typical sequence of events in a pair of clauses can be the key feature licensing the ellipsis of the latter’s direct object. The linguistic analysis contributes to a larger cognitive modeling effort aimed at configuring language-endowed intelligent agents with human-level language understanding capabilities.
Article outline
  • Introduction
    • The linguistic topic
    • The extra-linguistic issues
  • 1.A sample of predictive DO ellipsis configurations
    • Configuration 1
    • Configuration 2
    • Configuration 3
    • Configuration 4
    • Configuration 5
  • 2.No description exists in isolation
  • 3.Defining and detecting typical event sequences
    • Recording typical event sequences in an ontology
    • Determining the statistical likelihood that events represent a typical sequence
  • 4.The corpus analysis methodology
  • 5.The findings
    • Category 1
    • Category 2
    • Category 3
    • Category 4
    • Category 5
  • 6.The utility of the findings
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
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