Ellipsis and discourse coherence
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Ellipsis and discourse coherence.
VP-ellipsis generally requires a syntactically matching antecedent. However, many documented examples exist where the antecedent is not appropriate. Kehler (2000, 2002) proposed an elegant theory which predicts a syntactic antecedent for an elided VP is required only for a certain discourse coherence relation (resemblance) not for cause-effect relations. Most of the data Kehler used to motivate...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Linguistics and Philosophy
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0165-0157,1573-0549
DOI: 10.1007/s10988-006-0002-3