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 …

Korean subject honorification and Korean negation have both affixal and suppletive
exponents. In addition, Korean negation has a periphrastic realization involving an auxiliary …

This article shows that stripping, the elision of declarative TPs, is possible not only in
coordinate structures, but also in embedded clauses—however, only when the …

The semantics of the coordinator but does not fit neatly into the traditional distinction
between entailments and conversational implicatures. In its counterexpectational use, but …

The scope anomaly observed in sentences like Mrs. J can't live in Boston and Mr. J in LA
(¬◊>∧) and No dog eats Whiskas or cat Alpo (¬∃>∨) is known to pose difficult challenges …

This dissertation seeks to address the following question: can we use prosodic meaning as
a metric to inform the meaning of other semantically underspecified elements? This question …

Previous studies have shown that English speakers use a range of factors including locality,
information structure, and semantic parallelism to interpret clausal ellipsis structures. Yet, the …

This project describes the nominal, verbal and 'truncation'systems of Awing and explains the
syntactic and semantic functions of the multifunctional l<-><->(LE) morpheme in copular and …

This thesis investigates the syntactic and prosodic properties of what I call correlative
coordination; coordination where each junct (ie, conjunct or disjunct) has an overt …

This thesis investigates the structure and interpretation of questions and answers in K'iche',
an indigenous Mayan language of Guatemala, and aims to accomplish two interrelated …