Typical event sequences as licensors of direct object ellipsis in Russian
This paper extends the computationally-oriented theory of ellipsis presented in McShane’s
A Theory of
Ellipsis (
2005) by introducing the feature
typical event
sequence. It is argued that, in Russian, the presence of a typical sequence of events in a pair of clauses can be the
key feature licensing the ellipsis of the latter’s direct object. The linguistic analysis contributes to a larger cognitive
modeling effort aimed at configuring language-endowed intelligent agents with human-level language understanding capabilities.
Article outline
- Introduction
- The linguistic topic
- The extra-linguistic issues
- 1.A sample of predictive DO ellipsis configurations
- Configuration 1
- Configuration 2
- Configuration 3
- Configuration 4
- Configuration 5
- 2.No description exists in isolation
- 3.Defining and detecting typical event sequences
- Recording typical event sequences in an ontology
- Determining the statistical likelihood that events represent a typical sequence
- 4.The corpus analysis methodology
- 5.The findings
- Category 1
- Category 2
- Category 3
- Category 4
- Category 5
- 6.The utility of the findings
- Conclusion
- Notes
-
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