The question addressed in this paper emerged 35 years ago out of a classic paper by Jorge
Hankamer and Ivan Sag (1976) and a response to it (Schachter 1977; see also Schachter …

An analysis of antecedent mismatch effects under ellipsis is proposed to explain why some
cases of verb phrase ellipsis exhibit a sizeable penalty when the elided target is not …

This article provides an extensive overview of the literature related to the phenomenon of
non-nominal-antecedent anaphora (also known as abstract anaphora or discourse deixis), a …

In this book, I propose a grammar fragment which accounts for the main properties of two
elliptical constructions ('lacking'for the verbal head) called gapping (1a) and verbless …

This paper brings new theoretical and experimental evidence to bear on the classical
question of whether Verb Phrase Ellipsis requires a syntactically identical antecedent and …

Brazilian Portuguese (BP) is known to license anaphoric null objects (ANO), that is, null
objects with a linguistic antecedent. It also licenses VP ellipsis (VPE), with auxiliaries …

This paper presents the results of a large-scale investigation of the use of NP-remnant
pseudogapping (PG) in the COCA corpus. Discourse conditions on the use of …

The received view is that the VP pro-form do so cannot be a verbal passive, although it can
be unaccusative. I show that this is incorrect: do so can be passive. It can also take a raising …

Several recent proposals hold that CP complements appear rightmost in many languages as
the result of a two‐step leftward‐movement process: first the CP moves leftward, then a …

We offer an account of preposition drop under clausal ellipsis in terms of two language
processing principles: Minimize Domains and Minimize Forms. We argue that when …