Petra Hendriks. “Coherence Relations, Ellipsis, and Contrastive Topics”:http://odur.let.rug.nl/~hendriks/contrast03.pdf. Second draft August 19, 2003. Unpublished manuscript, University of Groningen.
bq. Abstract It has been observed (Kehler, 1996, 2000, 2002) that ellipsis resolution processes interact with the inference processes underlying the establishment of coherence relations in discourse. For example, gapping only cooccurs with the coherence relation of Resemblance. In this paper I show that the reason why certain ellipsis processes only cooccur with certain types of coherence relations does not lie in the (im)possibility to reconstruct the missing material. Rather, ellipsis processes differ in their relation to the topic of the sentence. The way in which different coherence relations construct their topic (i.e., as a contrastive topic or as a noncontrastive topic) restricts the types of ellipsis they can occur with. This conclusion is supported by observed differences between gapping and subject deletion in Dutch SGF-constructions.
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