Technical Reports (CIS)
Document Type
Technical Report
Date of this Version
January 1993
Abstract
A computational account of VP ellipsis is described, in which VP's are represented in the discourse model as contextually dependent semantic objects. It is argued that this approach can handle examples that are not allowed by alternative accounts. An implementation is defined in terms of extensions to the Incremental Interpretation System. The treatment of VP ellipsis is analogous to that of pronominal anaphora. It is suggested that the recency and salience constraints commonly thought to apply to pronominal anaphora might apply in a similar way to VP ellipsis.
Recommended Citation
Daniel Hardt, "VP Ellipsis and Contextual Interpretation", . January 1993.
Date Posted: 10 August 2007
Comments
University of Pennsylvania Department of Computer and Information Science Technical Report No. MS-CIS-93-06.