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| Author(s): |
Ralph Moreira Maduro
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Computação |
| Defense date: | 2005-06-29 |
| Examining board members: |
Ariadne Maria Brito Rizzoni Carvalho;
Flavia de Almeida Barros;
Tomasz Kowaltowski
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| Advisor: | Ariadne Maria Brito Rizzoni Carvalho |
| Abstract | |
This work is intended as an investigation into elliptical phenomena in natural language. We believe that some types of ellipsis can be resolved at the syntactic leveI since they are subject to syntactic constraints. We have dealt with five of the major types of ellipsis I faund in Portuguese, namely: Null VP, Gapping, Stripping, Sluicing and Null Complement Anaphora. We have used Island Constraints in order to decide on the grammaticality at the sentence. Finally, we have developed and implemented a syntactically-based algorithm that recovers the elided constituents and reconstructs the elliptical clause, when applicable. The linguistic data in this work is drawn primarily from Portuguese, but we believe that the results can also be applied to other languages, such as English (AU) | |