The papers of the volume mirror the ongoing debate on approaches towards two related topics: conjunction and ellipsis. The major issues are the syntactic relationship between the conjuncts, the syntactic category of the conjunction words, the size of the conjuncts, the syntactic and semantic status of the null elements, and semantic and information structural restrictions. A wide range of facts from various languages are explored in relation to phrasal coordination, Gapping, Pseudogapping, VP-ellipsis, and Sluicing.

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Contents: Alan Munn, Three Types of Coordination Asymmetries. - José Camacho, On the Structure of Conjunction. - John te Velde, Assumptions about the Structure of Coordination. - David Lightfood, Ellipses as Clitics. - Kyle Johnson, Gapping Determiners. - Cedric Boeckx, An Additional Note on Pseudogapping. - Ricardo Extepare/Kleanthes K. Grohmann, Conjunction of Infinitival Exclamatives and the Null Modal Hypothesis. - Ning Zhang, On Chinese Verbless Constructions. - Satoshi Oku, Definite and Indefinite Strict Identity in VP-Ellipsis. - Maribel Romero, Antecedentless Sluiced Wh-Phrases and Islands. - Susanne Winkler, Silent Copy and Polarity Focus in VP-Ellipsis. - Kerstin Schwabe, Coordinate Ellipsis and Information Structure.