When:
Friday, May 11, 2018
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM CT
Where: Chambers Hall, 600 Foster St, Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Contact:
Talant Abdykairov
Group: Linguistics Department
Category: Academic
As the influential work of Masaya Yoshida and others has pointed out, many
different beasts have been called elliptical: sluicing, VP-ellipsis, fragment answers,
short directives, and even bare exophoric fragments, among others. I argue that
while all of these can give rise to determinate propositional contents, these contents
are not all generated by the same mechanisms. Instead, there is a stochastic ranked
decision tree for resolving a putative ellipsis E.