Abstract
The aim of this paper is to propose an analysis of Gapping in a metagrammatical organization of grammar. A strategy for defining a grammar of a natural language by metagrammatical mechanisms is adopted in the framework, now called GENERALIZED PHRASE STRUCTURE GRAMMAR, a GENERATIVE GRAMMAR developed in such works as Gazdar 1981, 1982, Gazdar and Pullum 1981, 1982, Gazdar, Pullum, and Sag 1981, and Gazdar, Klein, Pullum, and Sag 1982, in press. The analysis of Gapping given below is along the general lines of GENERALIZED PHRASE STRUCTURE GRAMMAR. The rules necessary for generating gapped conjuncts are defined in dependence on the existence of rules for the corresponding nongapped conjuncts. The first half of the paper summarizes the discussion on coordination and Gapping by Sag, Gazdar, Wasow, and Weisler 1984 and the second half proposes some rules and conditions which insure generation of various Gapping sentences.
