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This paper investigates ellipsis within nominals in Japanese with reference to a wider range of data than that considered by Saito et al. (JEAL 17: 247– 271, 2008). It is shown that the interaction with ellipsis reveals two types of no, a genitive case particle and a linking element inserted morphologically. To accommodate the additional ellipsis data, the analysis that treats the numeral-classifier sequence as an adjunct to NP must be rejected.
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Watanabe, A. Notes on nominal ellipsis and the nature of no and classifiers in Japanese. J East Asian Linguist 19, 61–74 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10831-009-9052-1
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