Abstract

Given the above analysis for answer fragments, there is an obvious extension to other kinds of fragments which have often been analyzed as involving a kind of clausal ellipsis, such as stripping in its various manifestations and other related ‘elliptic conjunctions’, as well as perhaps gapping. The analysis of fragment answers proposed here is particularly reminiscent of movement approaches to stripping and gapping, as proposed in Sag 1976 and Pesetsky 1981, and articulared more recently in Johnson 1996, 2001, Kim 1998, Depiante 1999, Hoji 1987, 1990, Fukaya and Hoji 1999, Hoji and Fukaya 2001, Fukaya 1998, 2002. These analyses stand in contrast to non-movement approaches like Chao 1987 and Reinhart 1983 and non-ellipsis approaches like Reinhart 1991 and McCawley 1991. At issue are data such as - and perhaps and