Kennedy: Argument Contained Ellipsis Revisited

“Chris Kennedy”:http://www.ling.nwu.edu/~kennedy/ has posted “Argument Contained Ellipsis Revisited”:http://www.ling.nwu.edu/~kennedy/Docs/ace-revisited-abs.html

bq. Abstract. [This is Version 1 of an in-progress revision of Kennedy 1994. Comments welcome! ] This paper investigates an unusual identity constraint on English verb phrase ellipsis which imposes the following requirement: when an elliptical relation holds between two verb phrases A and B such that A is contained in an argument b of B, then the corresponding argument a of A must be identical to b. The paper argues that this is due to two factors: 1) the licensing conditions on ellipsis, which require logical equivalence between a deleted constituent and its antecendent (Sag 1976, Williams 1977), and 2) the interpretation of variable binding structures, which involves adding assignments to the assignment function, rather than reassigning values to previously used variables.

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