Argument ellipsis in Javanese and voice agreement

• Yosuke Sato ^[1]
  1. [1] National University of Singapor
• Localización: Studia linguistica: A journal of general linguistics, ISSN 0039-3193, Vol. 69, Nº 1, 2015, págs. 58-85
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Argument ellipsis in Javanese exhibits a subject-object asymmetry with respect to sloppy/quantificational interpretations. Adopting the LF-Copy theory of null arguments developed in Japanese and Turkish (Oku 1998, Takahashi 2008a, b, Şener and Takahashi 2010), I argue that this asymmetry falls out from the dyadic voice agreement system in Javanese where a single DP is specifically picked up by voice prefixes on v to mark the Actor-Topic or Theme-Topic alignments. I show that this agreement blocks the LF-Copy process from targeting empty subject positions. This result suggests that voice agreement is to be included in the general theory of agreement, together with φ-agreement.