We present a comparative analysis of English and Hungarian reprise fragments. We argue
that reprise fragments should be afforded the same theoretical treatment as standard (ie …

Recent studies reveal that the values of finiteness, tense, modality and polarity in a clause
elided under sluicing may be distinct from their correlates in the antecedent clause …

In this chapter I would like to defend the claim that certain non-truth conditional meanings
are exclusively triggered by properties of vocabulary items (in the sense of Halle and …

This volume explores the nature of ellipsis, the core phenomenon that results in various
types of omission in sentences. The chapters adopt the popular'silent structure'accounts of …

I argue that particular restrictions on the recoverability of elided negation in fragment
answers in negative-concord languages follow from the semantics of questions. Drawing …

Ellipsis is restricted by an identity condition such that elided material must be identical in
some fashion to a linguistic antecedent. The traditional view is that this requirement is …

Having space to sprout: Page 1 ‘You’re on Mute’ Ellipsis Seminar April 8, 2022 Having space
to sprout: Failed sprouting in sub-clausal ellipses Jason Overfelt Oakland University 1 …

Our goal in this paper is to analyze coordinated wh-sluicing in English and compare its
properties to the properties of multiple sluicing, coordinated wh-questions and coordinated …

Deletion-based accounts of verb phrase ellipsis (VPE) predict that this construction requires
a syntactically identical antecedent, but previous research shows that some antecedent …

On several occasions in recent linguistic research, operations that used to be considered
part of pragmatics were syntacticized: a covert operator was postulated to enrich the …