This volume contains essays on ellipsis -- the omission of understood words from a sentence -- and the closely related phenomena of gapping. This volume presents work by leading researchers on syntactic, semantic and computational aspects of ellipsis. The chapters bring together a variety of theoretical perspectives and examine a range of cross-linguistic phenomena involving ellipsis in Japanese, Arabic, Hebrew, and in English. This volume will be of interest to syntacticians, semanticists, computational linguists, and cognitive scientists.
Author(s): Shalom Lappin, Elabbas Benmamoun
Year: 1999
Language: English
Pages: 320
Contents......Page 10
Contributors......Page 12
Introduction......Page 18
1. Interactions of Scope and Ellipsis......Page 23
2. Ellipsis and Glue Languages......Page 47
3. An HPSG Account of Antecedent-Contained Ellipsis......Page 83
4. VP Ellipsis and The Minimalist Program: Some Speculations and Proposals......Page 113
5. V-Movement and VP Ellipsis......Page 139
6. Pseudogapping Puzzles......Page 156
7. Gapping, PF Merger, and Patterns of Partial Agreement......Page 190
8. Directionality of Movement in Ellipsis Resolution in English and Japanese......Page 208
9. VP Ellipsis: Toward a Dynamic, Structural Account......Page 242
B......Page 306
D......Page 307
G......Page 308
K......Page 309
N......Page 310
Q......Page 311
S......Page 312
Z......Page 313
