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Cross-Categorial Donkeys

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Logic, Language and Meaning

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Data from surprising sloppy readings of verb phrase ellipsis constructions argue that ellipsis sites can partially or totally consist of dynamically bound pro-forms. I give an account, integrating Muskens’ CDRT with a focus-based theory of ellipsis and deaccenting.

Thanks to Mark Baltin, Chris Barker, Daniel Hardt, Irene Heim, Kyle Johnson, Salvador Mascarenhas, Philippe Schlenker, Mike Solomon, and Anna Szabolcsi. I was supported by an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and NSF grant BCS-0902671.

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    Simon Charlow

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    Maria Aloni , Floris Roelofsen , Galit W. Sassoon , Katrin Schulz  & Matthijs Westera , , ,  & 

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Charlow, S. (2012). Cross-Categorial Donkeys. In: Aloni, M., Kimmelman, V., Roelofsen, F., Sassoon, G.W., Schulz, K., Westera, M. (eds) Logic, Language and Meaning. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7218. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31482-7_27

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