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Analytical Uniformity If a certain kind of meaning or use can be made in the absence of syntactic guides to that meaning or use, then syntactic guides are never needed for computing that meaning or use. If some device D can relate a form F and meaning M, then whenever we have M, D is implicated. (If something doesn’t work for every- thing, it can’t work for anything. If something works for one thing, it can work for everything.)

It is clear that, given the richness of the empirical database in ellipsis, and given the complexity of the analytical problems to which ellipsis gives rise, and given the nature of the conclusions one can and must draw from the analysis of ellipsis, theorizing in this domain would do well to beware the ‘uniforms’ of any stripe.