言語学講演会のお知らせ
記事投稿日：2010.06.22
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言語学講演会のお知らせ
九州大学言語学研究室では、下記の要領で講演会を開催します。
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日時： 平成２２年７月８日(木) 15:00 ～16:30
場所： 九州大学文学部４階（第１会議室）
講師： 宮川 繁 (MIT)
題目： Pro-drop and NP Ellipsis
(内容は下記参照)
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九州大学人文科学研究院言語学研究室
Phone: 092-642-2415
または、稲 田 俊 明
Mail: inada@lit.kyushu-u.ac.jp
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Pro-drop and NP Ellipsis:
Revisiting Jaeggli and Safir's "Morphological Uniformity" Condition
Shigeru Miyagawa, MIT
Pro-drop is typically correlated with rich agreement (Jespersen 1924,
Perlmutter 1971, Rizzi 1978, Taraldsen 1978). However, languages such as
Chinese evidence pro-drop without any overt agreement (Huang 1984).
To account for both types, Jaeggli and Safir (1989) propose that languages
that are morphologically uniformly complex (e.g., Romance) or uniformly
simple (Chinese) allow pro-drop, calling it "Morphological Uniformity" (MU).
In this talk, I will flush out some of the empirical issues associated
with pro-drop to try to understand what is behind MU. An important observation
made in the 1990s is that not all instances of pro-drop are associated
with a pronominal element (Huang 1991, Otani and Whitman 1991). Oku (1998)
shows that in some cases the empty element is the site of noun-phrase
ellipsis (NPE). His work shows that the distribution of pro and NPE can be
predicted by and large from the presence or absence of agreement: only pro is
allowed in the presence of agreement; NPE is only allowed in the absence
of agreement (see also Saito 2007). Based on recent studies by Miyagawa (2010),
?ener and Takahashi (to appear), and Takahashi (2008, 2010), I will show
that when there is no morphological indication of agreement whatsoever
at finite T, the default is to interpret person agreement at T,
leading to the possibility of pro but not NPE. This is the morphologically
uniformly simple phenomenon in MU and it characterizes Chinese,
which shows person agreement at T without any morphology. Basque and Japanese
provide additional data points for this new version of MU. Finally,
I will propose an alternative to Oku/Takahashi's proposal for NPE.
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