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This paper examines Verb Gapping and Pseudogapping constructions in English and provides computational algorithms by which we can easily calculate the semantic interpretations for these constructions. After we closely examine these constructions, we will modify Steedman’s Combinatory Categorial Grammar, which will be called a CCG-like system. In this CCG-like system, the meaning of those constructions will be calculated compositionally from the semantic interpretations of their constituents. Through the analyses of Verb Gapping and Pseudogapping constructions in English, this paper proposes the computational algorithms for calculating semantic interpretations for those constructions.