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Title Meaning Making Potential of Gapping in Urdu Axioms : A Study in Categorical Grammar

Author(s) TASNIM ARIF

Abstract Title: Meaning-making Potential of Gapping in Urdu Axioms: A Study in Categorial Grammar Gapping is challenging as it is not merely a linguistic phenomenon of remnants left behind in the deep structure but it also satisfies the syntactic patterns and meets standard constituency tests. This study aims to find out the extent to which gapping in English is similar to or different from the gapping in Urdu in its syntactic patterns and meaning potential. For the purposes of this research, the lens that has been used to investigate the frequency of occurrence of gapping in Urdu embedded gapped axioms is developed within the context of transformational grammar and the minimalist approach. Primarily Johnson’s (1996, 2009) framework has been applied to analyse the data as it is framed under Minimalist work, formulated as a variant of Categorial Grammar (CG) called Hybrid Type- Logical Categorial Grammar. The present study has attempted to apply constituency tests to find low VP coordination analysis in Urdu compound and complex axioms. Through syntax-semantic interface, occurrences of Gapping/Ellipses have been generalized in an instance of coordination in like-categories with the development of hypothetical reasoning. Gapping in formal Urdu embedded axioms has been analyzed in terms of their potential for verb and noun phrases to go missing, applying the basic syntax of gapping on Urdu elided clauses to interact with an independently driven examination of logical operators. To find and measure the height of ellipses with an ability or inability of gapping in Urdu, Johnson’s (1996, 2009) framework is selected to license variants of gapping that make meaningful strings in Urdu. Through variants of categorial grammar in gapping, such as: Pseudo gapping, sluicing, VP-Ellipsis and Nominal Ellipses, the potential for phrases to go missing in Urdu propositions has been measured through deontic operators for schematic configuration. The study finds out that all variants of gapping in English are partially applicable to Urdu axioms. This research would provide future researchers with an effective lens for hybrid type logical categorial grammar in a syntactic-semantic interface to critically analyze ambiguous sentences used by the speakers of Urdu language

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Publication Date 2023-10-19

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