@Article{Kurafuji2019,
author={Kurafuji, Takeo},
title={A choice function approach to null arguments},
journal={Linguistics and Philosophy},
year={2019},
month={Feb},
day={01},
volume={42},
number={1},
pages={3--44},
abstract={Recently, null arguments have been treated as an ellipsis phenomenon, derived by PF-deletion or LF-copy under some kind of identity requirements. Focusing on Japanese null arguments, this paper argues that they are base-generated empty nominals which are interpreted via choice functions. The functional approach is supported by cases involving intermediate scope readings, missing antecedents, and implicational bridging. A less standard case of Japanese null arguments anteceded by QPs is also discussed and shown to be amenable to the choice functional analysis supplemented by a general requirement of structural parallelism.},
issn={1573-0549},
doi={10.1007/s10988-018-9243-1},
url={https://doi.org/10.1007/s10988-018-9243-1}
}