Park, So-Young. 2016. Arguments for NP-ellipsis in Korean. Korean Journal of Linguistics, 41-2, 289-311. NP-ellipsis in Korean has often been refuted in the previous literature. This paper, however, presents two pieces of evidence in support of the existence of NP-ellipsis in Korean: evidence from numeral classifier constructions, and one from comparatives capitalizing on complex event and mass nouns. It turns out that NP-ellipsis can take place in Korean licensed by a numeral classifier. Potential alternatives like pronominalization, argument-ellipsis, or stranding are all falsified by the scrutiny of numeral classifier constructions with genitive-marked possessor arguments. Also, null NPs in comparatives, built on complex event and mass nouns, can be properly accounted for only under an NP-ellipsis analysis. (Pusan National University)
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Abstract 1. Introduction 2. An Alternative: Minor Argument Pronominalization by An (2012) 3. Numeral Classifiers and NP-ellipsis 4. Complex Event and Mass Nouns, and NP-Ellipsis 5. Conclusion References