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The Semantics of Ellipsis

There are four phenomena that are particularly troublesome for theories
of ellipsis: <br>the existence of sloppy readings when the relevant pronouns
cannot possibly be bound; an ellipsis being resolved in such a way that
an ellipsis site in the antecedent is not understood in the way it was
there; an ellipsis site drawing material from two or more separate antecedents;
and ellipsis with no linguistic antecedent. <br>These cases are
accounted for by means of a new theory that involves copying syntactically
incomplete antecedent material and an analysis of silent VPs and
NPs that makes them into higher order definite descriptions that can be
bound into.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:Potsdam/oai:kobv.de-opus-ubp:872
Date January 2005
CreatorsElbourne, Paul
ContributorsSonderforschungsbereich 632 Informationsstruktur <Potsdam>
PublisherUniversität Potsdam, Extern. Extern
Source SetsPotsdam University
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeArticle
Formatapplication/pdf
SourceInterdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS ; working papers of the SFB 632. - Vol. 3
Rightshttp://opus.kobv.de/ubp/doku/urheberrecht.php

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