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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.

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This book makes a valuable addition to the literature on this fascinating subject. ... the collection constitutes a major contribution to the analysis of VP-ellipsis, and is indispensable for anyone interested in this important topic in theoretical linguistics. Yan Huang, University of Reading, Linguistics Vol 36 This is an excellent collection. It represents diverse theoretical perspectives and very much reflects the current state of the art in the study of ellipsis. Ivan Sag, CSLI, Stanford University This collection approaches all the most thorny questions in a coherent and interesting way ... the contributors are well-respected. Donna Jo Napoli, Linguistics, Swarthmore College

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