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Structural Uniformity An apparently defective or misordered struc- ture is regular in underlying structure and becomes distorted in the course of derivation. (Culicover and Jackendoff 2005:7)

Culicover and Jackendoff 2005 take this assumption to task and argue that in the domain of ellipsis in particular, it leads to unnecessary positing of unpro- nounced structures. One may respond that their own proposals, which eschew any kind of unpronounced structure at all, are an instance of a different kind of uniformity assumption: