Abstract
Ellipsis is a pervasive phenomenon across the world’s languages, and it is easy to see why: it allows speakers to omit certain parts of their utterances while nonetheless conveying their full meaning, which contributes to making linguistic communication highly efficient. While there is broad consensus that elliptical utterances depend on the context in some way, the nature of this dependency remains controversial. In this paper, I re-evaluate the merits of two classes of ellipsis theories: identity theories, which posit that material can be elided only if it is identical to a linguistic antecedent; and referential theories, which assume that ellipsis is enabled by the same underlying mechanism that governs other forms of discourse reference. I argue that both empirical and theoretical considerations favor referential theories in this comparison, and in doing so I outline new adequacy criteria for linguistic theories aimed at explaining the nature of the linguistic and non-linguistic context and how it interfaces with context-dependent linguistic devices.
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- Frontmatter
- Editorial
- Introduction: Special issue on empirical approaches to elliptical constructions
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- Explaining ellipsis without identity*
- Experimentally testing the interpretation of multiple sluicing and multiple questions in Hungarian
- Multiple sluicing and islands: a cross-linguistic experimental investigation of the clausemate condition
- Pseudogapping in English: a direct interpretation approach
- Me too fragments in English and French: a direct interpretation approach
- Complementizer deletion in embedded gapping in Spanish
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Editorial
- Introduction: Special issue on empirical approaches to elliptical constructions
- Articles
- Explaining ellipsis without identity*
- Experimentally testing the interpretation of multiple sluicing and multiple questions in Hungarian
- Multiple sluicing and islands: a cross-linguistic experimental investigation of the clausemate condition
- Pseudogapping in English: a direct interpretation approach
- Me too fragments in English and French: a direct interpretation approach
- Complementizer deletion in embedded gapping in Spanish
- An experimental perspective on embedded gapping in Persian