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Null Instantiation in Sign-based Construction Grammar

December 2020Conference: HPSG 20: Twenty-seventh International Conference on Head Driven Phrase StructureGrammar · At: Berlin, Buxtehude, wherever

Project: Construction Grammar

Lab: Laura Adrienne Michaelis's Lab

Rui Chaves · Paul Kay · Laura Adrienne Michaelis

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In null instantiation (NI) an optionally unexpressed argument receives either anaphoric orexistential interpretation (Fillmore, 1986; Mauner & Koenig, 2000; Kay, 2002; Ruppenhofer &Michaelis, 2010, 2014). Examples include Lexically licensed NI (Nixon resigned ∅), Contextualacessibility NI (Can I see ∅?), Labelese (∅) contains alcohol), Diary NI (∅ got up, ∅ got out of bed,∅ dragged a comb across my head), Generic-habitual NI (The police only arrest (people) whenthere's probable cause). We think of a predicator as having NI potential when one or more of itsframe elements may remain unexpressed under certain conditions. One cannot accuratelypredicate a predicator's NI potential based either on semantic factors (e.g., Aktionsart class ofthe verb, as in Hovav & Levin (1998)) or pragmatic factors (e.g., relative discourse prominence ofarguments, as in Goldberg (2006)), but NI potential, while highly constrained, is not simply lexicalidiosyncrasy. It is instead the product of both lexical and constructional licensing. In the lattercase, a construction can endow a verb with NI potential that it would not otherwise have. Usingrepresentational tools of Sign Based Construction Grammar (Sag 2012, a.o), we offer a lexicaltreatment of null instantiation that covers both distinct patterns of construal of null instantiated

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