Conjunction Reduction, Gapping, and Right-Node Raising

It is argued that Conjunction Reduction, Gapping, and Right-node Raising are three separate phenomena in English, each having its own set of constraints and therefore needing a separate rule. Contrary to earlier analyses, these rules do not delete, but just raise. This is true even of Gapping, which is shown to be a special case of a more general rule of Conjunct Postposing, which is also responsible for 'split cooiirdinations' like John came, and Bill (too). All three rules appear to apply at the level of surface structure, and can be formulated in such a way that they leave that structure perhaps surprisingly unaffected.*