This chapter surveys a variety of approaches to ellipsis, classifying them by how they answer
the questions of structure ('Is there structure inside ellipsis sites?') and identity ('What kind of …

This dissertation is about ellipsis, a natural language construction in which a word or phrase
is understood even though it is not pronounced. This project brings together two strands of …

This paper is concerned with conditional thoughts that are expressed via 'incomplete
conditionals' in which an if-clause is uttered with no corresponding main clause, and yet still …

In two self-paced reading experiments, we investigated the effect of changes in antecedent
complexity on processing times for ellipsis. Pointer-or “sharing”-based approaches to ellipsis …

Participants in dialogue often use clause fragments, such as At Camberwell or A cheap
bottle, which are structurally incomplete but in fact make complete contributions to the …

In a self-paced reading experiment, we investigated the processing of sluicing constructions
(“sluices”) whose antecedent contained a known garden-path structure in German. Results …

Previous research has repeatedly shown that translations in English exhibit a clearer
preference for explicit that (vs. a zero marker) in complement clauses compared to non …

Our syntactic knowledge guides what we say and how we speak. In turn, what we say and
how we speak reflect the structure of our syntactic knowledge. Thus, studies of syntax and …

This dissertation explores whether the processing of ellipsis is affected by changes in the
complexity of the antecedent, either due to added linguistic material or to the presence of a …

A long-standing question concerning ellipsis considers the nature of the representations that
mediate interpretation at ellipsis sites. The present study asks what kind of material …