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  <Title>SOME PROBLEMATIC CASES OF VP ELLIPSIS</Title>
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INTRODUCTION
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    <Paragraph position="0"> It has been widely assumed that VP ellipsis is governed by an identity condition: the elided VP is interpreted as an identical copy of another expression in surrounding discourse. For example, Sag (76) imposes an identity condition on Logical Form representations of VP's. A basic feature of this account is the requirement that a syntactic VP be available as the antecedent. This requirement is reflected in most subsequent accounts as well. In this paper I examine three cases of VP ellipsis in which the antecedent cannot be identified with any VP.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> These cases, which are illustrated using naturally-occurring examples, present a fundamental problem for any of the standard approaches. I will argue that they receive a natural treatment in the system I have developed, in which VP ellipsis is treated by storing VP meanings in a discourse model.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> I will address the following three problems: * Combined Antecedents: The antecedent may be a combination of more than one previous property.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="3"> * Passive Antecedents: the antecedent in a passive clause may not be associated with any VP, but, rather, the property associated with the active counterpart of that clause.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="4"> * NP Antecedents: the antecedent may be a prop-erty associated with an NP.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="5"> In what follows, I sketch my general approach to VP ellipsis, after which I show how each of the above phenomena can be treated in this approach.</Paragraph>
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