L225A VP Ellipsis: Bis
- What is the right identity condition for VPE?
- S-Structure identity
- LF-Structure identity
- Semantic identity
- Some kind of semantic identity, modulo inference
- What is the status of active/passive mismatches?
Readings
- Kertz, Laura. 2010.
Verb Phrase Ellipsis: The View from Information Structure. Unpublished
manuscript, Brown University.
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Further Readings
- Sag, Ivan A., and Jorge Hankamer. 1984. Toward a Theory of
Anaphoric Processing. Linguistics and Philosophy 7: 325--345.
[Reprinted in Asa Kasher, ed. (1998), Pragmatics -- Critical
Concepts, Volume III. London and New York:
Routledge. Pp. 118--138.]
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- Hardt, Daniel. 1993. Verb Phrase Ellipis: Form, Meaning, and
Processing. Doctoral dissertation, U. of Pennsylvania.
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- Merchant, Jason. 2012. Voice in Ellipsis. Revised version submitted
to Linguistic Inquiry.
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