Notes on East Asian Argument Ellipsis

2007-12-01articleSeoul National University Open Repository (Seoul National University)348 citationsgreen

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Abstract

It is argued in S.-W. Kim 1999 that argument ellipsis is one of the distinguished characteristics of East Asian languages. Oku (1998) proposed argument ellipsis for Japanese independently, presenting examples such as the following to substantiate his claim:

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