TY  - JOUR
A1  - Elbourne, Paul
T1  - The Semantics of Ellipsis
JF  - Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS ; working papers of the SFB 632
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
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-8722
SN  - 1866-4725
SN  - 1614-4708
IS  - 3
SP  - 63
EP  - 109
ER  -