RT Journal Article SR Electronic(1) A1 McShane, Marjorie YR 2018 T1 Typical event sequences as licensors of direct object ellipsis in Russian JF Lingvisticæ Investigationes VO 41 IS 2 SP 179 OP 212 DO https://doi.org/10.1075/li.00019.mcs PB John Benjamins SN 0378-4169, AB Abstract

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., UL https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/li.00019.mcs