Project B13:
Ellipsis and Coordination in English

Research Cooperation

1. SFB 441 Internal

• A1: ellipsis corpus search in the Tübingen Treebank using the Query-Tool VIQTORYA;
• A3: evaluation of ellipses;
• A4: ellipsis interpretation;
• A5: research on cases with distributional peculiarities;
• B3 and B10: licensing conditions on ellipsis;
• B9, B11 and B12: reference und antecedent selection;
• C1: technical assistance with corpus research on ellipses.

2. SFB 441 External

• Christine Baatz, Department of Medieval English Language and Literature, University of Tübingen: history of the English Language, Middle English and Old English;
• Prof. Lynn Frazier, University of Massachusetts: psycholinguistic experiments and ellipsis;
• DFG-Projekt Gasde / Schwabe at Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Typologie und Universalienforschung, Berlin: ellipsis and information structure;
• Prof. Daniel Hardt, Copenhagen Business School and Villanova University: cooperation in corpus research on ellipsis;
• Prof. Kyle Johnson, University of Massachusetts: syntax of ellipsis;
• Prof. Dr. Ekkehard König, Freie Universität Berlin: focus typology;
• Prof. Luis López Carretero, University of Illinois: joint publications on ellipsis;
• Prof. Valeria Molnár, Lund University: topic und focus;
• Prof. Ellen Prince, University of Pennsylvania: ellipsis pragmatics;
• Prof. Maribel Romero, University of Pennsylvania: ellipsis semantics;
• Prof. Elisabeth Selkirk, University of Massachusetts: ellipsis phonology.