Linguistics 141: Ellipsis

Winter Quarter 2015

TTh 8-9:45, Social Sciences 2 159

This course is an introduction to the phenomenon of Ellipsis, which, in various manifestations, provides mechanisms for the reduction of redundancy in natural languages. The work for the course consists of homework problems, readings, and a final paper on some aspect of Ellipsis.

Instructor: Jorge Hankamer

SYLLABUS

Bresnan Squib Bach Squib Kayne Squib

Deep and Surface Anaphora

Assignment 1: VP Ellipsis

Assignment 2: More VP Ellipsis

Sag 1976

Assignment 3

Kennedy 1994

Assignment 4

Ross Cyclic Pronominalization

Assignment 5

Guess Who?

Assignment 6

Chung, Ladusaw, and McCloskey 1995

Gapping and Related Rules

Assignment 7

Gapping and the Order of Constutuents

Incomplete VP Deletion and Gapping

Lasnik: Pseudogapping Puzzles