List of figures and tables p. ix
The contributors p. xii
1 Ellipsis in natural language: Theoretical and empirical perspectives Jeroen Van Craenenbroeck and Tanja Temmerman p. 1
Part I The Theory of Ellipsis
2 Ellipsis: A survey of analytical approaches Jason Merchant p. 19
3 Ellipsis in Transformational Grammar Howard Lasnik and Kenshi Funakoshi p. 46
4 Ellipsis in Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar Jonathan Ginzburg and Philip Miller p. 75
5 Ellipsis in Categorial Grammar Pauline Jacobson p. 122
6 Ellipsis in Dependency Grammar Timothy Osborne p. 142
7 Ellipsis in Simpler Syntax Peter W. Culicover and Ray Jackendoff p. 162
8 Ellipsis in Construction Grammar Adele E. Goldberg and Florent Perek p. 188
9 Ellipsis in Dynamic Syntax Ruth Kempson and Eleni Gregoromichelaki and Arash Eshghi and Julian Hough p. 205
10 Ellipsis in Inquisitive Semantics Scott Anderbois p. 233
11 Ellipsis and psycholinguistics Lyn Frazier p. 253
12 Ellipsis and acquisition Tom Roeper p. 276
13 Ellipsis and discourse Andrew Kehler p. 314
14 Ellipsis and computational linguistics Daniel Hardt p. 342
15 Ellipsis and prosody Susanne Winkler p. 357
Part II Ellipsis as a Diagnostic Tool
16 Movement and islands Klaus Abels p. 389
17 Aphasia and acquisition Yosef Grodzinsky and Isabelle Deschamps and Lewis P. Shapiro p. 425
18 Parsing strategies Masaya Yoshida p. 444
19 Codeswitching Kay González-Vilbazo and Sergio E. Ramos p. 458
Part III Elliptical Constructions
20 Sluicing and its subtypes Luis Vicente p. 479
21 Predicate ellipsis Lobke Aelbrecht and William Harwood p. 504
22 Nominal ellipsis Andrés Saab p. 526
23 Gapping and stripping Kyle Johnson p. 562
24 Fragments Alison Hall p. 605
25 Comparative deletion Winfried Lechner p. 624
26 Null Complement Anaphora Marcela Depiante p. 657
27 Conjunction Reduction and Right-Node Raising Chris Wilder p. 681
Part IV Case Studies
28 Dutch Norbert Corver and Marjo Van Koppen p. 721
29 Finnish Sign Language Tommi Jantunen p. 765
30 French Anne Dagnac p. 785
31 Hungarian Anikó Lipták p. 815
32 Indonesian Catherine Fortin p. 841
33 Japanese Teruhiko Fukaya p. 865
34 Kiswahili and Shingazidja Cédric Patin and Sophie Manus p. 900
35 Persian Maziar Toosarvandani p. 934
36 Polish Joanna Nykiel p. 962
37 Russian John Frederick Bailyn and Tatiana Bondarenko p. 988
38 Varieties of English Gary Thoms p. 1020
References p. 1039
Index p. 1115
