Semantic Representation of Ellipsis in the Prague Dependency Treebanks

This article answers the question what is and what is not ellipsis and specifies criteria for identification of elliptical sentences. It reports on an analysis of types of ellipsis from the point of view of semantic representation of sentences. It does not deal with conditions and causes of the constitution of elliptical positions in sentences (when and why is it possible to omit something in a sentence) but it focuses exclusively on the identification of elliptical positions (if there is something omitted and what) and on their semantic representation in a treebank, specifically on their representation on the deep syntactic level of the Prague Dependency Treebanks. The theoretical frame of the approach to ellipsis presented in this article is dependency grammar.