ellipse treatment in LFG

[Augustin Borsu]

Hello,

Sorry if this message is not appropriate to the discussion board, but I don't really know where to turn for help.
I'm trying to find more information on how to analyse a sentence like :

Mary ate chocolate and Peter fruits.

I've been reading chapter 1 of Anne Abeillé, Les nouvelles syntaxes unfortunately I only have access to the 1993 version.
I'm also reading volume 34 of Syntax and Semantics, titled Lexical Functional Grammar by Mary Dalrymple from 2001 and I've stumbled upon the 160th volume of Langage from 2005 which put exact words on what I was looking for at the top of page 4. (Danièle Godard).
(iii) Comment les grammaires syntagmatiques peuvent-elles rendre compte des coordinations à ellipse, avec une séquence non présente phonétiquement, mais néanmoins suppléée par l’interprétation ?

But unfortunately the next paragraph states that they will not talk about this in that issue.

Most of the examples I have found treat a case where a syntagm is divided by a conjuction and the result is two identical structures with different values.
With for example SN -> SN Conj SN and the values of the two daughter SN become a set of the head. This works if the two daughters have the same f structure, but I can't really do this with the sentence I'm concerned with.
I was tempted to do a rule that would look like P -> P (P')* Conj P' 
The first daughter  P would then be the head of the mother P and every P' would be part of a set which would  receive the PRED value from the mother P.
Can I do that?

Being a newcomer to the academic world and even more to LFG, i'm a little lost and I was wondering if someone could help find more information on the subject. (either in english, french, russian or dutch)
Sorry to disturb you,
Sincerely,

Augustin Borsu
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