The semantics of ellipsis

  • There are four phenomena that are particularly troublesome for theories of ellipsis: 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. 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.

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Author:Paul Elbourne
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1112571
URL:http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2006/872
ISBN:978-3-937786-01-8
Parent Title (German):Approaches and findings in oral, written and gestural language / Ishihara, S., M. Schmitz, and A. Schwarz (eds.) ; Working Papers of the SFB 632, Interdisciplinary studies on information structure ; Vol. 3
Publisher:Univ.-Verl.
Place of publication:Potsdam
Document Type:Part of a Book
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2008/11/06
Year of first Publication:2005
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2008/11/06
Tag:NP-deletion; VP-ellipsis; definite descriptions
Volume:03
Page Number:47
First Page:63
Last Page:109
Source:Interdisciplinary Studies on Information Structure 03 (2005): 63–109 ; http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2006/872/ ; (erscheint in:) Linguistic Inquirys
HeBIS-PPN:20805619X
Dewey Decimal Classification:4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache
Sammlungen:Linguistik
Licence (German):License LogoDeutsches Urheberrecht

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