- Oxford Handbooks in Linguistics
- Copyright Page
- List of Figures and Tables
- The Contributors
- Ellipsis In Natural Language: Theoretical and empirical perspectives
- Ellipsis: A survey of analytical approaches
- Ellipsis in Transformational Grammar
- Ellipsis in Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar
- Ellipsis in Categorial Grammar
- Ellipsis in Dependency Grammar
- ellipsis in simpler syntax
- Ellipsis in Construction Grammar
- Ellipsis in Dynamic Syntax
- ellipsis in inquisitive semantics
- Ellipsis and Psycholinguistics
- Ellipsis and Acquisition
- Ellipsis and Discourse
- Ellipsis and Computational Linguistics
- Ellipsis and Prosody
- Movement and Islands
- Aphasia and Acquisition
- Parsing Strategies
- Codeswitching
- Sluicing and Its Subtypes
- Predicate Ellipsis
- Nominal Ellipsis
- Gapping and Stripping
- Fragments
- Comparative Deletion
- Null Complement Anaphora
- Conjunction Reduction and Right-Node Raising
- Dutch
- Finnish Sign Language
- French
- Hungarian
- Indonesian
- Japanese
- Kiswahili and Shingazidja
- Persian
- Polish
- Russian
- Varieties of English
- References
- Index
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Abstract and Keywords
This chapter describes ellipsis phenomena in Indonesian (Austronesian; Malayo-Polynesian). Several ellipsis phenomena are attested in Indonesian, including sluicing, fragments, auxiliary-stranding verb phrase ellipsis, pseudogapping, gapping, stripping, conjunction reduction, null complement anaphora, and ellipsis within nominal phrases. Indonesian has the potential to contribute meaningfully to our understanding of the ways in which these phenomena manifest cross-linguistically. One notable feature of Indonesian ellipsis, which is considered in detail, is that it permits prepositions to be omitted in some elliptical contexts, despite preposition stranding being prohibited in non-elliptical contexts. This is unexpected, given the cross-linguistically robust Preposition Stranding Generalization (Merchant 2001), which links a language’s ability to omit a preposition under ellipsis to its ability to strand a preposition via extraction of its complement. Phenomena affected include sluicing, fragments, pseudogapping, stripping, and gapping.
Keywords: Indonesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Austronesian, ellipsis, preposition stranding, sluicing, fragments, auxiliary-stranding verb phrase ellipsis, gapping, pseudogapping
Catherine Fortin is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Carleton College. She received her PhD in Linguistics from the University of Michigan in 2007. Her primary research interests are the syntax and morphosyntax of Indonesian and Minangkabau, including ellipsis phenomena, clause structure, and argument structure.
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- Oxford Handbooks in Linguistics
- Copyright Page
- List of Figures and Tables
- The Contributors
- Ellipsis In Natural Language: Theoretical and empirical perspectives
- Ellipsis: A survey of analytical approaches
- Ellipsis in Transformational Grammar
- Ellipsis in Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar
- Ellipsis in Categorial Grammar
- Ellipsis in Dependency Grammar
- ellipsis in simpler syntax
- Ellipsis in Construction Grammar
- Ellipsis in Dynamic Syntax
- ellipsis in inquisitive semantics
- Ellipsis and Psycholinguistics
- Ellipsis and Acquisition
- Ellipsis and Discourse
- Ellipsis and Computational Linguistics
- Ellipsis and Prosody
- Movement and Islands
- Aphasia and Acquisition
- Parsing Strategies
- Codeswitching
- Sluicing and Its Subtypes
- Predicate Ellipsis
- Nominal Ellipsis
- Gapping and Stripping
- Fragments
- Comparative Deletion
- Null Complement Anaphora
- Conjunction Reduction and Right-Node Raising
- Dutch
- Finnish Sign Language
- French
- Hungarian
- Indonesian
- Japanese
- Kiswahili and Shingazidja
- Persian
- Polish
- Russian
- Varieties of English
- References
- Index
- Oxford Handbooks in Linguistics