The primary goal of coherence theory is to provide an explanation for the coherence
properties of discourse: what properties distinguish a discourse from a mere collection of …

The question addressed in this paper emerged 35 years ago out of a classic paper by Jorge
Hankamer and Ivan Sag (1976) and a response to it (Schachter 1977; see also Schachter …

An analysis of antecedent mismatch effects under ellipsis is proposed to explain why some
cases of verb phrase ellipsis exhibit a sizeable penalty when the elided target is not …

This paper lays the foundations for a processing model of relative acceptability levels in verb
phrase ellipsis (VPE). In the proposed model, mismatching VPE examples are grammatical …

This dissertation provides a psycholinguistic investigation of the influence of discourse on
language comprehension. It examines factors that allow comprehenders to follow a …

We investigate the syntax of verb-echo answers in Japanese. We first present two
arguments showing that this answer form is best analyzed through overt V-to-T-to-C …

In this paper, we will argue that, of the various grammatical and discourse constraints that
affect acceptability in verb phrase ellipsis (VPE), only the structural parallelism constraint is …

Theories differ as to how people recover the meaning of verb-phrase (VP) ellipsis. According
to the syntactic account, people reproduce the syntactic structure of the antecedent during …

When an elided constituent and its antecedent do not match syntactically, the presence of a
word implying the non-actuality of the state of affairs described in the antecedent seems to …

I present an analysis of antecedent mismatch effects under ellipsis based on information
structure, in which apparent syntactic parallelism effects are explained as a consequence of …