Shoichi Takahashi & Danny Fox have a new paper on ellipsis:
- Shoichi Takahashi & Danny Fox. 2005. “MaxElide and the Re-binding Problem”.
Conclusion: We have claimed that MaxElide is a constraint that forces deletion of the biggest deletable constituent under all circumstances. We also claimed that this constraint applies to those constituents which are subject to the parallelism condition (Parallelism Domains). Parallelism Domains must be bigger than ECs in Re-binding contexts, but in other contexts, they can be the ECs themselves. This explains the fact that the effects of MaxElide are observable only in Re-binding contexts. The difference in the size of Parallelism Domains is a corollary of context-sensitive parallelism conditions (such as Rooth’s 1992b) in a system that postulates variables and variable names. Thus, we have suggested that our results can be taken as evidence for such systems.
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