Ellipsis and Higher-Order Unification

Ellipsis and Higher-Order Unification (1991)

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by Mary Dalrymple , Stuart M. Shieber , Fernando C. N. Pereira

Venue:	Linguistics and Philosophy
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TITLE	Ellipsis and Higher-Order Unification	user correction - Legacy Corrections
AUTHOR NAME	Mary Dalrymple	user correction - Legacy Corrections
AUTHOR AFFIL	Xerox PARC	user correction - Legacy Corrections
AUTHOR ADDR	Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA	user correction - Legacy Corrections
AUTHOR NAME	Stuart M. Shieber	user correction - Legacy Corrections
AUTHOR AFFIL	Division of Applied Sciences; Harvard University	user correction - Legacy Corrections
AUTHOR ADDR	Cambridge, MA 02138, USA	user correction - Legacy Corrections
AUTHOR NAME	Fernando C. N. Pereira	user correction - Legacy Corrections
AUTHOR AFFIL	AT&T Bell Laboratories	user correction - Legacy Corrections
AUTHOR ADDR	Murray Hill, NJ 07974, USA	user correction - Legacy Corrections
ABSTRACT	We present a new method for characterizing the interpretive possibilities generated by elliptical constructions in natural language. Unlike previous analyses, which postulate ambiguity of interpretation or derivation in the full clause source of the ellipsis, our analysis requires no such hidden ambiguity. Further, the analysis follows relatively directly from an abstract statement of the ellipsis interpretation problem. It predicts correctly a wide range of interactions between ellipsis and other semantic phenomena such as quantifier scope and bound anaphora. Finally, although the analysis itself is stated nonprocedurally, it admits of a direct computational method for generating interpretations. This article is available through the Computation and Language E-Print Archive as cmp-lg/9503008, and also appears in Linguistics and Philosophy 14(4):399--452. cmp-lg/9503008 Ellipsis and Higher-Order Unification 1 Contents 1 Introduction 2 2 Basics 2 2.1 An Abstract Statement of the El...	user correction - Legacy Corrections
YEAR	1991	INFERENCE
VENUE	Linguistics and Philosophy	INFERENCE
VENUE TYPE	JOURNAL	INFERENCE
PAGES	399--452	INFERENCE
VOLUME	14	INFERENCE
CITATIONS	33 found	ParsCit 1.0