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Argument (complex analysis)

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Hebrew

Hebrew Bible

Archaeology

Biblical Hebrew

Developmental psychology

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Typology

Modal verb

Ellipsis (linguistics)

Biblical studies

Psychology

Verb phrase ellipsis

Object (grammar)

Verb

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Medicine

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Antecedent (behavioral psychology)

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Glossa a journal of general linguistics

Hebrew is standardly cited as a language exhibiting Verb-stranding VP-ellipsis (VSVPE). Systematic reassessment of the data demonstrates that all the alleged evidence for VSVPE is consistent with Argument Ellipsis (AE); furthermore, there are ample data that are only consistent with AE, and more revealingly, data that can only be explained if VSVPE is unavailable. Finally, the verb preceding the missing object need not match the antecedent verb, falsifying the “Verb Identity Requirement”. The conclusion that Hebrew employs AE (similarly to East Asian languages) but not VSVPE focuses attention both on the typology of AE and on the so-far hidden constraints against VSVPE derivations.

Missing objects in Hebrew: Argument ellipsis, not VP ellipsis