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Linglib.Phenomena.Ellipsis.Gapping

Basic word order types for transitive clauses.

S = Subject, V = Verb, O = Object

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      Languages can have different orders in main vs subordinate clauses

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          Direction of gapping in coordinate structures.

          Forward: verb in first conjunct, gap in second "Dexter ate bread, and Warren, potatoes" ↑ ↑gap

          Backward: gap in first conjunct, verb in second "Ken Naomi-o, Erika Sara-o tazuneta" ↑gap ↑verb

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              A gapping pattern describes what a language allows.

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                        Steedman's revised generalization: gapping depends on lexical availability of verb categories, not "underlying" word order.

                        A language allows forward gapping iff it has rightward-combining verbs. A language allows backward gapping iff it has leftward-combining verbs.

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                            Dutch: VSO main clause, SOV subordinate clause - both directions

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                              Zapotec: VSO subordinate, but allows SOV main clause - both directions

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                                A gapping example in a specific language.

                                • language : String
                                • surface : String
                                • gloss : String
                                • translation : String
                                • direction : GappingDirection
                                • isGrammatical : Bool
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                                                      Types of elliptical constructions (Steedman's taxonomy).

                                                      Gapping and Stripping are syntactically mediated via CCG. VP Ellipsis and Sluicing are purely anaphoric.

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                                                          Does this ellipsis type require semantic identity (e-GIVENness)? @cite{anand-hardt-mccloskey-2021}: all ellipsis types require e-GIVENness.

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                                                            VP ellipsis tolerates voice mismatches because it lacks the SIC. Since VPE has no syntactic identity requirement, voice flavor differences (agentive vs nonThematic) are irrelevant — only e-GIVENness (semantic identity) must hold.