The syntax and semantics of elliptical constructions: A direct interpretation perspective

Ellipsis refers to a phenomenon that involves the omission from a clause of one or more words that are nevertheless understood in the context of the remaining elements. The key question for its analysis is then how to license such correspondences between incomplete syntax and complete semantics. There have been two main strands: deletion-based and direct interpretation-based. The former derives elliptical structures from clausal sources such that there is no mismatch between the syntax and the semantics of ellipsis. Meanwhile, the latter countenances non-correspondences at syntax but derives sentential semantics from structured discourse information. This position paper discusses a direct interpretation perspective on ellipitcal constructions as represented by HPSG.

[1]  Pauline Jacobson,et al.  The short answer: Implications for direct compositionality (and vice versa) , 2016 .

[2]  Jonathan Ginzburg,et al.  Non-sentential utterances: A Corpus study , 2002 .

[3]  A. Thallaj,et al.  Guess what? , 2011, Saudi journal of anaesthesia.

[4]  Lyn Frazier,et al.  The Role of Non-Actuality Implicatures in Processing Elided Constituents. , 2012, Journal of memory and language.

[5]  Lobke Aelbrecht,et al.  To Be Or Not To Be Elided: VP ellipsis revisited , 2015 .

[6]  Josef Ruppenhofer,et al.  Frames and the interpretation of omitted arguments in English , 2014 .

[7]  C. Clifton,et al.  Processing Elided Verb Phrases with Flawed Antecedents: the Recycling Hypothesis. , 2006, Journal of memory and language.

[8]  Anikó Lipták,et al.  Contrast and Island Sensitivity in Clausal Ellipsis , 2014 .

[9]  Kyle Johnson,et al.  What VP Ellipsis Can Do, and What it Can't, but not Why * , 2008 .

[10]  William A. Ladusaw,et al.  Sluicing and logical form , 1995 .

[11]  Jorge Hankamer,et al.  Deep and surface anaphora , 1993 .

[12]  1 A Linearization-based approach to Gapping , 2005 .

[13]  Jonathan Ginzburg,et al.  Ellipsis in Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar , 2018 .

[14]  Geoffrey K. Pullum,et al.  Exophoric VP Ellipsis , 2014 .

[15]  Jonathan Ginzburg,et al.  The interactive stance : meaning for conversation , 2012 .

[16]  Kim Jong-Bok.  Fragments in Korean: A Direct Interpretation Approach , 2015 .

[17]  Stuart M. Shieber,et al.  Ellipsis and higher-order unification , 1991 .

[18]  Jason Merchant,et al.  Voice and Ellipsis , 2013, Linguistic Inquiry.

[19]  I. Sag.  Sign-Based Construction Grammar: An Informal Synopsis , 2012 .

[20]  Sandra Chung,et al.  Sluicing and the Lexicon: The Point of No Return , 2005 .

[21]  M. Baltin,et al.  The Mental representation of grammatical relations , 1985 .

[22]  Ivan A. Sag,et al.  Remarks on sluicing , 2011, Proceedings of the International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar.

[23]  Philip Miller,et al.  The Choice between Verbal Anaphors in Discourse , 2011, DAARC.

[24]  Matthew Purver,et al.  CLARIE: Handling Clarification Requests in a Dialogue System , 2006 .

[25]  Kirsten Gengel,et al.  Pseudogapping and Ellipsis , 2013 .

[26]  S. Anderbois.  The semantics of sluicing: Beyond truth conditions , 2014 .

[27]  Gregory M. Kobele,et al.  The Acceptability Cline in VP Ellipsis , 2011 .

[28]  L. Lopez.  Ellipsis and discourse-linking , 2000 .

[29]  Jorge E. Hankamer,et al.  Constraints on deletion in syntax , 1972 .

[30]  Jonathan Ginzburg,et al.  Interrogative Investigations: The Form, Meaning, and Use of English Interrogatives , 2001 .

[31]  Andrew Nevins,et al.  Cleaving the Interactions Between Sluicing and Preposition Stranding , 2009 .

[32]  Daniel Hardt,et al.  Verb phrase ellipsis: form, meaning, and processing , 1993 .

[33]  Robin Cooper,et al.  Clarification, Ellipsis, and the Nature of Contextual Updates in Dialogue , 2004 .

[34]  Bonnie Webber.  A Formal Approach to Discourse Anaphora , 2016 .

[35]  Ivan A. Sag,et al.  Deletion And Logical Form , 1976 .

[36]  Jason Merchant,et al.  The syntax of silence : sluicing, islands, and the theory of ellipsis , 2001 .

[37]  Jeffrey T. Runner,et al.  The division of labor in explanations of verb phrase ellipsis , 2018 .

[38]  Klaus Abels,et al.  On the interaction of P-stranding and Sluicing in Bulgarian , 2017 .

[39]  Elisabeth Norcliffe,et al.  The core and the periphery: Data-driven perspectives on syntax inspired by Ivan A. Sag , 2013 .

[40]  Andrew Kehler,et al.  Coherence, reference, and the theory of grammar , 2002, CSLI lecture notes series.

[41]  Jason Merchant,et al.  Fragments and ellipsis , 2005 .

[42]  Masaya Yoshida,et al.  A Problem for the Preposition Stranding Generalization , 2007, Linguistic Inquiry.

[43]  Ivan A. Sag,et al.  Coordinate ellipsis and apparent non-constituent coordination , 2004, Proceedings of the International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar.

[44]  Anne Abeillé,et al.  A Romance Perspective on Gapping Constructions , 2013 .

[45]  Jong-Bok Kim,et al.  Syntactic and semantic identity in Korean sluicing: A direct interpretation approach , 2015 .

[46]  A. Lobeck.  Ellipsis: Functional Heads, Licensing, and Identification , 1995 .

[47]  Joanna Nykiel,et al.  Clefts and preposition omission under sluicing , 2013 .