Anaphoric Dependencies In Ellipsis
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چکیده
It has long been known that anaphoric relationships in the implicit meaning of an elided verb phrase depend on corresponding anaphoric relationships in the source of the ellipsis. This squib concernswhat the underlying cause of this dependency is. Does it arise directly through some uniform relation between the two clauses, or does it follow indirectly from independently motivated discourse principles governing pronominal reference? Verb phrase ellipsis is exemplified by sentence (1):
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