Abstract
This study explores Merchants (2001, 2004, 2008) Island Repair approach for VPE and sluicing and attempts to show its problems, by critically reviewing the notions of i) MaxElide and ii) Scope parallelism between the antecedent clause and the focus structure of the elided clause suggested by Merchant. This study thereby confirms the necessity of a semantic consideration for a proper explanation of the anaphoric difference between VPE and Sluicing. A supplementary argumentation is provided for Event Semantics account proposed by Wee (2015), which claims for the event semantic difference between the two elliptical constructions.
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