Ellipsis

This chapter provides an overview of the HPSG analyses of elliptical constructions. It first discusses three types of ellipsis (nonsentential utterances, predicate ellipsis, and non-constituent coordination) that have attracted much attention in HPSG. It then reviews existing evidence for and against the so-called direct interpretation or WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) perspective to ellipsis, where no invisible material is posited at the ellipsis site. The chapter then recaps the key points of existing HPSG analyses applied to the three types of ellipsis.