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Colloquium: Jason Merchant (UCHI) - Stochastic resolution of ellipsis: Why the holy grail of a grand unified theory will never be found

Friday, May 11, 2018 | 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM CT
Chambers Hall, 600 Foster St, Evanston, IL 60208 map it

As the influential work of Masaya Yoshida and others has pointed out, many
different beasts have been called elliptical: sluicing, VP-ellipsis, fragment answers,
short directives, and even bare exophoric fragments, among others. I argue that
while all of these can give rise to determinate propositional contents, these contents
are not all generated by the same mechanisms. Instead, there is a stochastic ranked
decision tree for resolving a putative ellipsis E.

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