Pieters (2011) provides a comprehensive overview of the description of ellipsis in coordinate structures in various Dutch grammars since 1900. An exhaustive review of the theoretical approaches to the various forms of ellipsis within coordinate structures up to the early 1980s can be found in Van Oirsouw (1987); information on more recent developments can be found in Johannessen (1998: §3), Johnson (2006/2017), Progovac (2003), and De Vries (2017). A more general review of ellipsis phenomena can be found in Van Craenenbroeck & Merchant (2013); for more general reviews of ellipsis in Dutch (dialects) we refer the reader to Van Craenenbroeck (2010), Zwart (2011: §6.4), and Corver & Van Koppen (2019).

The discussion of ellipsis in Sections 39.1-39.3 largely follows Neijt (1979), which argues that (i) backward conjunction reduction and gapping are sufficient to describe the core data, (ii) backward conjunction reduction is a phonological operation, and (iii) gapping is a syntactic rule subject to specific constraints on A'-movement; cf. also Neijt (1981a/1981b), Broekhuis (2018), and Broekhuis & Bayer (2020). Again, these claims are controversial; we have already listed a number of studies supporting forward conjunction reduction. De Vries (2005) and Citko (2017) review a variety of analyses for backward conjunction reduction; Van Oirsouw discusses a number of non-movement analyses for gapping (including one of his own). We have seen in Section 39.2, sub IID, that claim (iii) did not lead Neijt to the conclusion that A'-movement is actually involved in the derivation of gapping constructions because of various differences between gapping and wh-movement, but various attempts to derive gapping by actual movement are reviewed and developed in Johnson (2006/2017: §4.2), Aelbrecht (2007), and Boone (2014). The specific version of the movement analysis adopted in this chapter is based on recent developments in the discussion of A'-scrambling, which are reviewed in Section V13.3.2. We have not discussed the relationship between conjunction reduction and gapping on the one hand, and VP-ellipsis and pseudo-gapping on the other, because the latter two phenomena do not occur in Dutch; cf. Van Oirsouw (1987:158ff.) and Corver & Van Koppen (2019), and for discussions of English VP-ellipsis see e.g. Wilder (1997), Johnson (2006/2017) and Aelbrechts (2009). The discussion in Section 39.4 on whether gapping is possible in structures without coordination is based on Hendriks (1991/1995: §2), Van der Heijden & Klein (1995), Haeseryn et al. (1997: §27.5) and Van der Heijden (1999), but comes to a different conclusion.

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