Stripping isn’t so mysterious, or anomalous scope, either

Abstract

This paper discusses a common variety of ellipsis phenomena in English called Stripping, with particular focus on the observation of so-called anomalous scope of negation and auxiliaries in Stripping sentences, and the difficulties that this data poses for existing analyses of Stripping. I then propose an extension to a recent Hybrid Type-Logical Categorical Grammar account of Gapping that adequately covers Stripping while straightforwardly accounting for the scope anomalies. This anomalous scope is a fascinating formal problem on the syntax-semantics interface that has been thus far overlooked in the stripping literature.