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Hinds, John V. 1979. The ellipsis of possessor noun phrases in Japanese conversation. Working Papers in Linguistics 11 (1) : 23–37.
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English
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Annotation

H. offers observations on a conversational situation in Japanese in which the speaker violates the Gricean maxim of manner related to ambiguity with considerable regularity. In order to do so he relates the notion of ellipsis of noun phrase arguments to ellipsis involved in possessor noun phrases.