This chapter surveys a variety of approaches to ellipsis, classifying them by how they answer
the questions of structure ('Is there structure inside ellipsis sites?') and identity ('What kind of …

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 …

An investigation of the syntax and semantics of wh-questions through the lens of intervention
effects, offering a new proposal on overt and covert wh-movement. In this book, Hadas Kotek …

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 …

Previous research on VP-ellipsis has revealed the existence of a Mismatch Asymmetry,
whereby cases with passive voice ellipsis clauses and active antecedent clauses are less …

It is proposed that humans have available to them two systems for interpreting natural
language. One system is familiar from formal semantics. It is a type based system that pairs a …

A copying approach to ellipsis is presented, whereby the locus of copying is not a level of
derived syntactic structure (LF), but rather the derivation itself. The ban on preposition …

There are two common competing conceptions of how ellipsis can be resolved: in the first,
ellipsis is resolved by constructing unpronounced syntactic representations at the ellipsis …

Exposure to verb phrase ellipsis in English with double-object or prepositional ditransitive
antecedents affects syntactic choices in subsequent sentence production, inducing speakers …

Ellipsis is a pervasive phenomenon across the world's languages, and it is easy to see why:
it allows speakers to omit certain parts of their utterances while nonetheless conveying their …