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.

Metadaten
Author details:	Paul Elbourne
URN:	urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-8722
ISSN:	1866-4725
ISSN:	1614-4708
Title of parent work (German):	Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS ; working papers of the SFB 632
Publication type:	Article
Language:	English
Publication year:	2005
Publishing institution:	Universität Potsdam
Contributing corporation:	Sonderforschungsbereich 632 Informationsstruktur <Potsdam>
Release date:	2006/09/14
Tag:	NP-deletion; VP-ellipsis; definite descriptions
Issue:	3
First page:	63
Last Page:	109
Source:	Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS ; working papers of the SFB 632. - Vol. 3
RVK - Regensburg classification:	ER 300
Organizational units:	Extern / Extern
DDC classification:	4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache
Collection(s):	Universität Potsdam / Schriftenreihen / Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS ; working papers of the SFB 632, ISSN 1866-4725 / ISIS (2005) 03
License (German):	Keine öffentliche Lizenz: Unter Urheberrechtsschutz
External remark:	erschienen in: Approaches and findings in oral, written and gestural language. - Potsdam : Univ.-Verl., 2005. - 244 S. (Interdisciplinary studies on information structure ; 3) ISBN 3-937786-01-5 URN: urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-8255 zugleich in Printform erschienen im Universitätsverlag Potsdam.