**Abstract:** Two strategies of nominal ellipsis have been proposed in the literature:
delation and pronominalization (Corver & van Koppen (2011) and references
therein). Hiraiwa (2016) argues that Japanese uses the pronominalization
strategy. Based on Hiraiwa(2016), this study investigates what kind of
modifiers can license pronominal items. Specifically, I argue that the
pronominalization strategy is allowed when a pronominal item combines with
a local modifier of type ⟨e,t⟩. I show that this condition holds for at
least two types of pre-nominal modifiers in Japanese; numeral classifiers
and temporal adjectives.
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