Technical Reports (CIS)
Document Type
Technical Report
Date of this Version
January 1993
Abstract
While it is generally agreed that an elliptical Verb Phrase must be identical to its antecedent, the precise formulation of the identity condition is controversial. I present a semantic identity condition on VP ellipsis: the elided VP must have the same meaning as its antecedent. I argue that a semantic identity condition is superior to a syntactic condition on both empirical and theoretical grounds. In addition, I show that the proposed condition differs significantly from previously proposed semantic conditions, in that other approaches do not take into account the dynamic nature of semantic representation.
Recommended Citation
Daniel Hardt, "VP Ellipsis and Semantic Identity", . January 1993.
Date Posted: 10 August 2007
Comments
University of Pennsylvania Department of Computer and Information Science Technical Report No. MS-CIS-93-04.