In this paper I argue that English exceptive constructions introduced by except can be derived from full clauses by ellipsis. I offer a compositional analysis for this clausal exceptive construction. I propose that except introduces quantification over possible situations and the clause following it provides the restriction for this quantification. I show how the analysis developed here derives the inferences except contributes to sentences it occurs in and the restrictions on its use. I also show how this approach captures certain cases which traditional approaches to the semantics of exceptives do not, such as cases where an except-phrase contains a PP or multiple syntactic constituents. The approach I propose correctly captures the NPI licensing facts inside except-phrases. In addition, this is the first approach to the semantics of exceptives that correctly captures the contribution of modal phrases such as possibly inside except-phrases.

在本文中，我认为，由except引入的英语例外构造可以从省略号的全部从句中派生出来。我对这种从属结构进行了成分分析。我建议除了在可能的情况下引入量化外，其后的子句对此量化提供了限制。我展示了这里进行的分析如何推论出推论，除了有助于其出现的句子以及对它的使用的限制。我还展示了这种方法是如何捕获某些例外情况下传统语义方法所不具备的情况的，例如例外情况-短语包含PP或多个语法成分。我建议的方法正确地捕获了-phrases之外的NPI许可事实。此外，这是第一种方法exceptives的语义正确捕捉模式短语的贡献，如可能里面除了-phrases。