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Conclusion

Ellipsis continues to fascinate because its analysis goes directly to the heart of the main reason we study syntax: to discern the nature of the form/meaning cor- respondence. Theorizing in this domain requires one to tackle questions of basic ontology, and to make decisions about the nature of arguments for linguistic repre- sentations. Much work on ellipsis has taken it for granted that elliptical structures (and the way we derive their meanings) should be parallel to nonelliptical struc- tures, and that theorizing about the two should be uniform. Indeed, this imperative underlies much work in theoretical linguistics more generally, and has been named the ‘structural uniformity’ assumption: