On Antecedent Contained Ellipsis*
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This paper argues that elliptical VPs do not necessarily present cases of VP ellipsis. Certain relative clauses that contain elliptical VPs are analysed as instances of transitive verb phrase ellipsis. A storing account of ellipsis resolution is given. Resolution of TVP ellipsis is achieved by resolving a binary relation that derives from an antecedent TVP. This avoids the problem of antecedent containment with internal antecedents and also accounts for clause-external antecedents. A NP scoping analysis is dispensed with. Cases of elliptical relative clauses that are instances of antecedent contained VP ellipsis lead to a revision of quantifier storing. Considerations concerning external antecedents show shortcomings of recent accounts of antecedent-ellipsis parallelism.
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