TY - CHAP A1 - Elbourne, Paul T1 - The semantics of ellipsis T2 - 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 N2 - 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. KW - VP-ellipsis KW - NP-deletion KW - definite descriptions Y1 - 2005 UR - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/10065 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1112571 UR - http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2006/872 SN - 978-3-937786-01-8 VL - 03 SP - 63 EP - 109 PB - Univ.-Verl. CY - Potsdam ER -