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 …

In this article we argue against the proposal that island violations are repaired by ellipsis.
Building on Merchant (2001), we argue that ellipsis sites allow for a number of non …

Analyses of the ellipsis identity condition must account for the fact that some syntactic
mismatches between an ellipsis site E and its antecedent A are possible while others are …

In this book, I propose a grammar fragment which accounts for the main properties of two
elliptical constructions ('lacking'for the verbal head) called gapping (1a) and verbless …

This paper presents the results of a large-scale investigation of the use of NP-remnant
pseudogapping (PG) in the COCA corpus. Discourse conditions on the use of …

This dissertation is about ellipsis, a natural language construction in which a word or phrase
is understood even though it is not pronounced. This project brings together two strands of …

VP-‐ellipsis* Page 1 1 VP-‐ellipsis* Jeroen van Craenenbroeck KU Leuven/CRISSP & Université
Saint-‐Louis jeroen.vancraenenbroeck@kuleuven.be word count: 14382 (excluding references) …

We offer an account of preposition drop under clausal ellipsis in terms of two language
processing principles: Minimize Domains and Minimize Forms. We argue that when …

The characterizing feature of ellipsis is that elements of semantic content are obtained in the
absence of any corresponding syntactic form. The syntax thus appears to be incomplete …

This dissertation investigates the role of Focus-sensitivity for a typology of presupposition
triggers. The central hypothesis is that Focus-sensitive triggers require a linguistic …