In the past 25 years EPs have been paid particular attention, thanks to the pioneering studies of Jacob Hoeksema (for instance, Hoeksema 1987). Presently, we already dispose of in-depth studies about the semantics of EPs (Moltmann 1995, Lappin 1996, Garcia Álvarez 2008). As for grammatical aspects of EPs, they came under focus more recently. A peculiar direction of research stimulated by the pa...

Sentences containing VP ellipsis (VPE) must find a matching antecedent VP for the elided VP. This is a condition associated with recoverability: when a VP-gap is encountered, a VP representation from the preceding context must be copied into the empty VP position for the sentence to be interpreted. What kind of representation this is has long been debated— syntactic identity [1-3] has been argu...

We provide a general account of parallelism in discourse, and apply it to the special case of resolving possible readings for instances of VP ellipsis. We show how seyeral problematic examples are accounted for in a natural and straightforward fashion. The generality of the approach makes it directly applicable to a variety of other types of ellipsis and reference. 1 T h e P r o b l e m o f V P...