Bound morphemes, coordination and bracketing paradox

Elements necessary for a proper interpretation of a sentence can sometimes be missing from the 'surface' representation involving coordination (ellips is, gapping, etc.). Though different methods have been proposed to recover missing elements, it is not clear how such recovery can be accomplished whe n they correspond to bound morphemes. Assuming lexicalism, this paper shows how such missing elements are recovered semantically without employing emp ty place holders, abstract functional categories or invisible movement. Bou nd verbal morphemes in Japanese introduced here give rise to morpho-semanti co bracketing paradoxes which prove to be problematic for a syntactic view of morphology.