A Morpheme-based Model of Nonsentential Utterance Production
The present study is an attempt to account for non-sentential utterance (NSU) production without assuming the existence of a `syntactically full sentence' for every NSU. The model for NSU production that derives from this study has the following four advantages over the popular `constituent-omi...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Oslo
2009-01-01
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| Series: | Oslo Studies in Language |
| Online Access: | https://journals.uio.no/osla/article/view/6 |
| Summary: | The present study is an attempt to account for non-sentential utterance (NSU) production without assuming the existence of a `syntactically full sentence' for every NSU. The model for NSU production that derives from this study has the following four advantages over the popular `constituent-omis-sion' model: It 1) accounts for the production of NSUs that native speakers variably `reconstruct', 2) explains why in certain contexts pro-drop cannot occur in languages that have morphologically marked subject-verb agreement 3) models the production of NSUs without devising separate production processes for `ellipses' and `fragments', and 4) predicts what constituents have to be present in a given NSU. It also keeps the involvement of syntax {in} NSU production to a minimum. |
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| ISSN: | 1890-9639 |