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.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:Potsdam/oai:kobv.de-opus-ubp:872 |
| Date | January 2005 |
| Creators | Elbourne, Paul |
| Contributors | Sonderforschungsbereich 632 Informationsstruktur <Potsdam> |
| Publisher | Universität Potsdam, Extern. Extern |
| Source Sets | Potsdam University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Article |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS ; working papers of the SFB 632. - Vol. 3 |
| Rights | http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/doku/urheberrecht.php |
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