Non-constituent coordination

[Shalom Lappin]

Hi Berthold,
     This sentence is definitely out for me. You might want to look at
the following papers, which deal with bare argument ellipsis.

Lappin, S. (1996), "The Interpretation of Ellipsis" in S. Lappin (ed.),
Handbook of
    Contemporary Semantic Theory, Blackwell, Oxford, 145-175.

Lappin, S. and H-H. Shih (1996), "A Generalized Reconstruction Algorithm

    for Ellipsis Resolution" in Proceedings of COLING-96, pp. 687-692.

Lappin S. and  H. Gregory (1997), "A Computational Model of Ellipsis" in
G-J
    Kruiff, G. Morrill, and R. Oehrle (eds.), Proceedings of the
Conference on
    Formal Grammar, ESSLLI, Aix-en-Provence.

Regards,
                                          Shalom


Berthold Crysmann wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I wonder whether the following sentence is acceptable for the native
> speakers of English amongst you:
>
> John gave Mary a book and a record to Peter.
>
> Thanks a lot for your help,
>
> Berthold
>
> --
> Berthold Crysmann <crysmann at dfki.de>
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