| Acknowledgments |
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1.1 Nounless Noun Phrases |
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2 | (2) |
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1.3 Theoretical Background and Terminology |
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4 | (4) |
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2 Licensors of Empty Nouns in English---Setting the Scene |
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2.1 Licensors of Noun Ellipsis in English |
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8 | (4) |
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2.1.1 Overview of Prenominal Items and the Heads They Take |
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8 | (1) |
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9 | (2) |
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11 | (1) |
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2.2 Noun Ellipsis in German |
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12 | (7) |
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2.3 Questions to Be Addressed |
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19 | (2) |
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3 Inflection, Focus, and Partitivity---Previous Accounts of Noun Ellipsis |
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21 | (27) |
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3.1 Two Empty Nouns and Their Properties |
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21 | (4) |
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3.2 Inflection and Agreement |
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25 | (5) |
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26 | (1) |
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27 | (2) |
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3.2.3 Against Formal Licensing and Identification |
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29 | (1) |
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3.3 Semantic Features---Partitivity |
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30 | (9) |
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3.3.1 Sleeman's (1996) Account for Noun Ellipsis |
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30 | (3) |
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3.3.2 The Notion of Partitivity |
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3.3.2.1 The Syntactic Definition of Partitivity |
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33 | (2) |
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3.3.2.2 Partitivity as a Semantic Feature |
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35 | (4) |
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3.4 Information Structure |
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39 | (5) |
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40 | (2) |
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3.4.2 Semantic Effects of Focus |
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42 | (2) |
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44 | (1) |
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45 | (3) |
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4 Conditions on Noun Ellipsis in English |
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48 | (37) |
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4.1 Empty Nouns and Contrast |
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48 | (7) |
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4.2 Noun Ellipsis versus One-Insertion |
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55 | (11) |
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4.2.1 Mass-Count Properties of the Licensors |
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57 | (2) |
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4.2.2 The Nature of Every One |
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59 | (4) |
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4.2.3 Some Remarks on the Definite Article |
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63 | (3) |
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4.3 The Structure of the Elliptical Noun Phrase |
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66 | (17) |
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4.3.1 Deletion Under Adjacency |
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69 | (3) |
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4.3.2 Nominal Classification and Ellipsis |
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72 | (1) |
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4.3.2.1 Different Nominal Classification Systems |
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73 | (1) |
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4.3.2.2 Noun Ellipsis and the Mass-Count Distinction in English |
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74 | (2) |
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4.3.2.3 Non-Antecedent-Based Uses of Empty Nouns |
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76 | (2) |
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4.3.2.4 Noun Ellipsis in German |
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78 | (5) |
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83 | (2) |
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5 Adjectival Modifiers in Elliptical Noun Phrases |
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5.1 Conducting a Corpus Study on Noun Ellipsis |
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86 | (5) |
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5.2 Adjectives Used in Elliptical Noun Phrases |
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91 | (4) |
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5.3 Contextual Limitations of Sets: Taxonomies and Lexical Relations |
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95 | (11) |
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5.3.1 Different Uses of Elliptical Noun Phrases |
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95 | (1) |
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5.3.1.1 Taxonomizing Contexts |
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95 | (3) |
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5.3.1.2 Lexical Relations |
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98 | (3) |
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5.3.1.3 Further Means to Express Contrast |
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101 | (2) |
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5.3.2 Contextual Limitations of Reference Sets |
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103 | (1) |
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5.3.2.1 The Notion of Classifying Adjectives |
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103 | (2) |
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5.3.2.2 Closed Sets of Referents |
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105 | (1) |
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5.4 Preference for Elliptical Noun Phrases in Taxonomies |
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106 | (12) |
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5.4.1 Realizations of the Head Noun: Lexical, Silent, and One |
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107 | (4) |
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5.4.2 Distance between Anaphor and Antecedent |
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111 | (2) |
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113 | (1) |
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5.4.4 Antecedents of the Silent Noun and One |
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114 | (2) |
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116 | (2) |
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118 | (8) |
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5.5.1 Anaphoric Head Noun Realizations with Old and New |
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119 | (5) |
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5.5.2 Factors Determining Accessibility |
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124 | (2) |
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5.6 Summary and Conclusion |
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126 | (3) |
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129 | (4) |
| Notes |
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133 | (12) |
| References |
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145 | (6) |
| Index |
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