Szczegielniak, Adam2018-06-062004Szczegielniak, Adam. 2006. “VP Ellipsis And Topicalization”. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Fifth Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, ed. Leah Bateman and Cherlon Ussery, October 22-24, 2004, Storrs, Connecticut, 603-614. Amherst, MA: BookSurge Publishing.978-1419622106http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:37086248This paper supports the model where VP ellipsis is licensed via de-stressing which in turn is licensed via Focus closure (Rooth 1992). However, it is also argued that we have to assume that ellipsis is preceded by the establishment of Focus/Topic relations in overt syntax. This can be done in two ways: by focusing the subject, provided a Σ head is in the numeration, or by topicalizing the VP. The first strategy gives rise to non bare-VP ellipsis, the second to bare-VP ellipsis.en-USConference Paper2014-02-05