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Ellipsis and AGREE: Parallelism Effects in Spanish Noun Drop
Research Day (Arts & Humanities, FIMS, and Education) (2011)
  • Joyce Bruhn de Garavito, The University of Western Ontario
Abstract

In Spanish it is possible to drop nouns in order to avoid repetition. Noun drop is very productive (Ticio 2001; 2005).

Given the high level of accuracy in gender concord found in previous studies (Bruhn de Garavito and White 2002; White et al 2004, among others) I predict that adult learners of Spanish have the appropriate representation of number and gender in their L2. They will therefore distinguish between these two features under ellipsis.

Keywords
  • Ellipsis,
  • Parallelism,
  • Spanish Noun Drop
Publication Date
March 23, 2011
Citation Information
Joyce Bruhn de Garavito. "Ellipsis and AGREE: Parallelism Effects in Spanish Noun Drop" Research Day (Arts & Humanities, FIMS, and Education) (2011)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/joyce_bruhndegaravito/3/