Publication ｜Sophia Linguistica
Takaomi Kato
The aim of this paper is to provide a new argument in favor of the concept of specifying
coordination, which is characterized as the type of coordination in which the second
conjunct specifies the first conjunct. I first argue that a class of Japanese sentences which
I call “tumari elliptical constructions” (TECs) involve Gapping, based on the observation
that the ellipsis occurring in TECs exhibits a set of properties of Gapping in Japanese.
Then, I argue that TECs involve specifying coordination, based on the observations that
Japanese Gapping is restricted to coordinate structures and that the two clauses linked
by tumari ‘that is (to say) / namely’ in TECs are in a relation in which the second clause
specifies the first clause.
