This monograph presents a theory of ellipsis licensing in terms of Agree and applies it to several elliptical phenomena in both English and Dutch. The author ma

Empirical sources -- Appendix -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 4 -- Index

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This handbook is the first volume to provide a comprehensive, in-depth, and balanced discussion of ellipsis, a phenomena whereby expressions in natural language