In this paper, I argue that the Germanic construction traditionally labeled Contrastive Leftdislocation1 (CLD) reduces to an interplay of movement and ellipsis in an underlyingly biclausal structure. The resulting analysis relies exclusively on independently motivated grammatical operations (A-movement in syntax and clausal ellipsis/deaccenting at PF), thereby achieving a reduction of construct...

Among various important issues pertaining to the so-called right dislocated construction (RDC) in Korean are the basic word order and the grammatical relation the right dislocated (RDed) element assumes to the rest of the structure. In his series of papers, J.-S. Lee (2007a,b, 2008a, 2009a,b, 2010, 2011, 2012) proposes a mono-clausal analysis of Korean RDC, according to which the RDed element i...

The semantic contrast between COUNTEREXPECTATIONAL and CORRECTIVE but has long interested linguists (see Anscombre and Ducrot 1977 and much subsequent work). Recently, Vicente (2010) has proposed that the two types of but also differ in their syntax. While counterexpectational but coordinates constituents from a variety of different categories, corrective but always coordinates full clauses. Th...

One of the benefits of incremental sentence production is to reduce the working memory capacity needed for advance planning: The planning units can be of considerably smaller size (measured in terms of word length) than in case of non-incremental production. The same advantage has been claimed for the various forms of ellipsis, which preempt the need to plan the detailed shape of one or more co...

This paper raises a neglected issue in the study of ellipsis resolution. The existence of ellipsis under certain constructions is often disguised due to the structure that assigns the nominative marking to what is typically the object. This kind of ellipsis deserves attention in view of the fact that its referent is the agent of the sentence and that these constructions are observed in diverse ...