Lappin Shalom, Benmamoun Elabbas (Editors). Fragments: Studies in Ellipsis and Gapping

Oxford University Press, 1999. — 298 pages. — ISBN: 0-19-512302-6.This volume contains essays on ellipsis the omission of understood words from a sentence and the closely related phenomena of gapping. This volume presents work by leading researchers on syntactic, semantic and computational aspects of ellipsis. The chapters bring together a variety of theoretical perspectives and examine a range of cross-linguistic phenomena involving ellipsis in Japanese, Arabic, Hebrew, and in English. This volume will be of interest to syntacticians, semanticists, computational linguists, and cognitive scientists.Interactions of Scope and Ellipsis
Ellipsis and Glue Languages
An HPSG Account of Antecedent-Contained Ellipsis
VP Ellipsis and The Minimalist Program: Some Speculations and Proposals
V-Movement and VP Ellipsis
Pseudogapping Puzzles
Gapping, PF Merger, and Patterns of Partial Agreement
Directionality of Movement in Ellipsis Resolution in English and Japanese
VP Ellipsis: Toward a Dynamic, Structural Account