Ellipses are quite common amongst languages. As Bar
ss (2003) points out,
ellipsis (as a type of anaphora) involves linguisti
c expressions which
receive their semantic interpretation “via a depend
ency upon an
antecedent, rather than from its internal lexical c
ontent.”
(p. ix) This
makes ellipsis in and of itself an interesting topi
c for language acquisition
research since it is a syntax-discourse phenomenon
which implies the
development of both formal licensing conditions and
identification
conditions for convergence.
Our aim in this paper is to examine the acquisition
of one case of
ellipsis, namely, VP ellipsis (VPE), in European Po
rtuguese (EP) and
Brazilian Portuguese (BP).info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
