What VP Ellipsis Can Do, and What it Can't, But Not Why

2001/01/01 by Kyle Johnson · 5 citations
Arts and Humanities · #Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

paper · doi:10.1002/9780470756416.ch14

openalex publication_date 2001/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29

Abstract

This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Licensing the Ellipsis Finding the Antecedent How the Ellipsis Gets its Meaning

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