Ellipsis in the languages of the Caucasus

In this chapter, I overview ellipsis phenomena commonly discussed in the literature (including N' ellipsis, verb phrase ellipsis, gapping, pseudogapping, right node raising, stripping, and sluicing) and examine the properties of their counterparts in a sample of the languages of the Caucasus. I show that languages of the Caucasus exhibit several ellipsis varieties that have been unnoticed so far.