Pseudogapping as Pseudo-VP-Ellipsis

In this article, we propose an analysis of pseudogapping in Hybrid Type-Logical Categorial Grammar (Hybrid TLCG; Kubota 2010; Kubota and Levine 2012). Pseudogapping poses a particularly challenging problem for previous analyses in both the transformational and the nontransformational literature. We argue that the flexible syntax-semantics interface of Hybrid TLCG enables an analysis of pseudogap-ping that synthesizes the key insights of both transformational and non-transformational approaches, at the same time overcoming the major difficulties of each type of approach.