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  <Title>VP Ellipsis and Contextual Interpretation</Title>
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6 Conclusions
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    <Paragraph position="0"> While it has been argued by many that VP ellipsis is a semantic phenomenon, there is no existing account that satisfies some standard requirements on semantic representation, relating to the &amp;quot;dispensability&amp;quot; of the meaning-representation language, and the incorporation of contextual dependencies in semantic representations. In addition, existing semantic accounts have important empirical problems, not allowing pronouns to switch reference from antecedent to target with sufficient flexibility. The modifications necessary to comply with the standard requirements on semantic representation are exactly the ones needed to solve these empirical problems. I have described such a semantic account, showing that it handles the examples that are ruled out by alternative semantic accounts.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> The approach is easily implemented eomputationally, by some simple extensions to the Incremental Interpretation System. In addition, there is evidence indicating that the selection of a VP antecedent might be subject to the same sort of constraints that govern pronominal anaphora.</Paragraph>
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