Fragments and ellipsis

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Voice and Ellipsis (2013, background): “A representative claim is that of Sag (1976:17), who gives the examples in (3), reproduced here with the judgments he reports.”
On Reacting to Assertions and Polar Questions (2010, background): “For an ellipsis account, see Kramer & Rawlins (to appear), who follow Merchant (2004)).”
On the meaning of some focus-sensitive particles (2007, neutral): “whose denotation is: kPhlhstii:kt:kw:9e½t � timeðe Þ^ P ðeÞðw Þ¼ 1� . 22 This is similar to Merchant (2004) ’s semantic analysis of ellipsis.”
Contrast and Island Sensitivity in Clausal Ellipsis (2014, methodology): “Merchant (2004) mentions that the additional movement step might be motivated if English fragment answers are similar to Clitic Left Dislocation structures (of the kind found in Romance languages).”
Being progressive is just a phase: celebrating the uniqueness of progressive aspect under a phase-based analysis (2015, background): “I follow numerous authors (Ross 1969; Chomsky 1972; Sag 1976; Tancredi 1992; Chomsky and Lasnik 1993; Lasnik 1995a, 1999, 2001b; Merchant 2001, 2004; Aelbrecht 2010) in assuming that ellipsis phenomena such as VPE are deletion of syntactic structures at PF.”