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The purpose of this paper is to provide an analysis of referential dependencies in elliptical contexts. The facts of elliptical dependencies can be accounted for by two representational innovations. First, ellipsis is analyzed as the sharing of identically-composed thematic-structure between the overt structure and the corresponding null structure. Second, the two relations of referential dependency, link and obviate, are generalized to hold between positions in the thematic-structure as well as positions in the phrase-structure. The counter-example is that the null structure is not an independent copy of the overt structure. A copy operation naturally makes two predictions; neither holds in VPE. To resolve this problem, that copying is both necessary and impossible, I propose that the invisible VP shares the thematic-structure of the overt VP, but not its phrase-structure or phonology.
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I. Introduction
2. Invisible Obviation
3. The Proposed System of Representation
3.1. Segregated Phrase And Thematic Structure
3.2. Two Relations of Referential Dependency
3.3. Ellipsis As A Shared Thematic-function
4. The Space of Elliptical Structures
4.1. Invisible Crossover
4.2. Invisible Obviation
4.3. Recursive Ellipsis
5. Conclusion
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