摘要：The main aim of this paper is to examine Lechner’s (2001)[1] proposal—his CR Hypothesis (Conjunction Reduction (hereafter CR)—that Comparative Ellipsis (hereafter CE ) can be dispensed with and reductions of comparative clauses can be entirely explained by operations independently needed for reducing coordinate structures. I argue against this hypothesis and claim that Comparative Ellipsis is necessary. I discuss two special phenomena which can only be analyzed by Comparative Ellipsis, that is, the deletion of the whole complement clause in the than -clause which includes the compared phrase, and the phenomenon of the deletion of the whole than -clause except for a part of the subject.
