Gapping and VP ellipsis in a unification-based grammar

The object of this thesis is to investigate the linguistic phenomena of gapping and VP ellipsis. These phenomena have been approached from a variety of perspectives in the literature: syntactic, semantic, pragmatic and computational. The aim of this thesis is to examine gapping and VP ellipsis from...

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Main Author: Gardent, Claire
Published: University of Edinburgh 1992
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.651320