Voice and ellipsis

J Merchant - Linguistic Inquiry, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Elided VPs and their antecedent VPs can mismatch in voice, with passive VPs being elided
under apparent identity with active antecedent VPs, and vice versa. Such voice mismatches …

The syntactic licensing of ellipsis

L Aelbrecht - John Benjamins google schola, 2010 - degruyter.com
This book is about one of the most intriguing parts of natural language, namely about what is
left unsaid. Ellipsis has received some attention over the past few years, but still remains ill …

Nominal VP anaphora in Scandinavian and English

A Weir - The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics, 2024 - Springer
This paper investigates the properties of nominal phrases and demonstratives used as
verbal anaphora in Norwegian, Danish, English, and Scots-English, eg English Can John …

Missing objects in Hebrew: Argument ellipsis, not VP ellipsis

I Landau - Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, 2018 - glossa-journal.org
Hebrew is standardly cited as a language exhibiting Verb-stranding VP-ellipsis (VSVPE).
Systematic reassessment of the data demonstrates that all the alleged evidence for VSVPE …

Argument ellipsis as external merge after transfer

I Landau - Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, 2023 - Springer
Argument Ellipsis (AE) is a productive process in Hebrew, but some arguments resist ellipsis—
precisely those that do not denote individuals. This constraint, a reflection of a general …

The syntax and semantics of do so anaphora

MJ Houser - 2010 - escholarship.org
Do so anaphora is a fairly widely used in English, but has received relatively little treatment
in the literature (especially when compared with verb phrase ellipsis). There are, how-ever …

Movement and islands

K Abels - 2018 - academic.oup.com
This chapter discusses two strands of research where the interaction of ellipsis with
movement has been used to construct arguments pertaining to the implementation of …

Pronominal inflection and NP ellipsis in German

A Murphy - The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics, 2018 - Springer
Indefinite and possessive pronouns in German such as ein-es 'one'and mein-er 'mine'bear
strong inflectional endings unlike their determiner counterparts. Following Saab and Lipták …

Deep properties of surface pronouns: Pronominal predicate anaphors in Norwegian and German

K Bentzen, J Merchant, P Svenonius - The Journal of Comparative …, 2013 - Springer
We examine VP-anaphoric uses of Norwegian gjøre det 'do it'and argue that 'surface'and
'deep'anaphoric uses of gjøre det can be distinguished. We suggest that this ambiguity is …

The typology of head movement and ellipsis: A reply to Lipták and Saab (2014)

C Sailor - Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, 2018 - Springer
Lipták and Saab (2014) argue that the availability of both XP-ellipsis and X-movement out of
XP within a particular language implicates the availability of the X-stranding XP-ellipsis …