This volume investigates the syntactic, semantic, and computational mechanisms underlying ellipsis and gapping in natural language. The editors, Elabbas Benmamoun and Shalom Lappin, curate a collection of essays from leading researchers to explore how understood words are omitted from sentences. The text provides a theoretical framework for understanding these linguistic phenomena across diverse language families, including Arabic, Hebrew, Japanese, and English.

Experts identify this collection as a specialized resource for researchers in theoretical and computational linguistics. Readers frequently note the academic density of the prose, which assumes a foundational knowledge of formal syntax and semantics.