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 …

There is an age-old tradition in linguistics and philosophy to identify the meaning of a
entence with its truth-conditions. This can be explained by the fact that linguistic and …

This article is concerned with the analysis of'short'or'fragment'answers to questions, and the
relationship between these and the hypothesis of DIRECT COMPOSITIONALITY (DC)(eg …

In the past decades of research, questions have become a very prominent topic at the
semantics-pragmatics interface. Certainly, they are a natural and challenging topic for any …

This article puts forward two distinct arguments regarding the condition on identity between
antecedent and ellipsis site that governs the grammaticality of sluices. The first argument is …

It is a long-standing puzzle why predicates like believe embed declarative but not
interrogative complements (eg, Bill believes that/* whether Mary left) and why predicates like …

This paper focuses on multiple sluicing (MS) utterances in which the antecedent for sluicing
is syntactically complex, insofar as it contains at least one embedded clause. Complex …

This paper argues that the meaning of a clausal ellipsis site can only be recovered from a
syntactically derived question, regardless of whether this question is explicitly uttered or is …

This article is concerned with the role of syntax in the licensing of sluicing in English. It
amends and provides new support for a proposal made by Rudin (2019) in which syntax …

Sluicing in Korean allows to unexpress clausal material, but the unexpressed, elided
material needs to be recovered in a proper way. The recovering process makes use of either …