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602:(also N-ellipsis, N'-ellipsis, NP-ellipsis, NPE, ellipsis in the DP) occurs when the noun and potentially accompanying modifiers are omitted from a noun phrase. Nominal ellipsis occurs with a limited set of determinatives in English (cardinal and ordinal numbers and possessive determiners), though it is much freer in other languages. The following examples illustrate nominal ellipsis with cardinal and ordinal numbers: 267:. Many linguists take stripping to be a particular manifestation of gapping whereby just one remnant appears in the gapped clause instead of the two (or more) that occur in instances of gapping. The fact that stripping is limited to occurring in coordinate structures is the main reason why stripping is integrated into the analysis of gapping: 543:
usually elides everything from a direct or indirect question except the question word. It is a frequent type of ellipsis that appears to occur in most if not all languages. It can operate both forwards and backwards like VP-ellipsis, but unlike gapping, stripping, answer fragments, and pseudogapping,
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to be a particular manifestation of VP-ellipsis (rather than a variation on gapping). Like VP-ellipsis, pseudogapping is introduced by an auxiliary verb. Pseudogapping differs from VP-ellipsis, however, insofar as the elided VP is not entirely gone, but rather one (or more) remnants of the VP appear,
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Ellipsis is widely studied in theoretical literature, with studies focusing especially on the mental representation of elided material, the conditions which license ellipsis, and the means by which the elided material is recovered. One challenge to theoretical accounts of ellipsis comes from cases
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in the sense of being derived by one and the same mechanism. Ellipsis-based accounts have been given for other syntaxes, and some of the above have been analyzed in other ways. Most experts would agree, however, that most of the above items are in fact ellipses, so the discussion below takes their
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operations to explain such cases. These movement rules raise non-elided material out of a constituent, allowing ellipsis to apply only to the material that is left, thus creating the illusion of ellipsis applying to a non-constituent. Some alternative analyses assume more flexible conceptions of
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is elided in this sentence is up to the speaker and to communicative aspects of the situational context in which the sentence is uttered. This optionality is a clear indication of ellipsis. At other times, however, ellipsis seems to be obligatory, for instance with cases of comparative deletion,
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While these two sentences again each have two remnants, the gapped material is no longer continuous. There are in a sense two gaps in each of the gapped clauses. Gapping has been thoroughly studied, and it is therefore reasonably well understood, although the theoretical analyses can vary
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Of the various ellipsis mechanisms, null complement anaphora is the least studied. In this regard, its status as ellipsis is a point of debate, since its behavior is not consistent with the behavior of many of the other ellipsis mechanisms.
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Null complement anaphora elides a complete complement, whereby the elided complement is a finite clause, infinitive phrase, or prepositional phrase. The verbal predicates that can license null complement anaphora form a limited set (e.g.,
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These examples illustrate that stripping is flexible insofar as the remnant in the stripped clause is not limited in function; it can, for instance, be a subject as in the first sentence or an object as in the second sentence.
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occurs in coordinate structures. Redundant material that is present in the immediately preceding clause can be "gapped". This gapped material usually contains a finite verb. Canonical cases have a true "gap" insofar as a
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Sluicing has been studied intensely in the past decade and can be viewed as a relatively well-understood ellipsis mechanism, although the theoretical analysis of certain aspects of sluicing remains controversial.
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Johnson, Kyle 2001. What VP ellipsis can do, and what it can't, but not why. In The handbook of contemporary syntactic theory, ed. Mark Baltin and Chris Collins, 439–479. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.
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Pseudogapping is more restricted in distribution than VP-ellipsis. For instance, it can hardly occur backwards, i.e., the ellipsis can hardly precede its antecedent. Further examples:
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Comparative deletion is different from many of the other optional ellipsis mechanisms insofar as it is obligatory. The non-elliptical versions of these sentences are unacceptable.
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An aspect of VP-ellipsis that is unlike gapping and stripping is that it can occur forwards or backwards. That is, the ellipsis can precede or follow its antecedent, e.g.:
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has been applied to a range of syntax in which a perceived interpretation is fuller than that which would be expected based solely on the presence of linguistic forms.
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The example sentences below employ the convention whereby the elided material is indicated with subscripts and smaller font size. All examples given below come from
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The sluicing illustrated with these two sentences has occurred in indirect questions. Sluicing in direct questions is illustrated with the following two examples:
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appears to use comparative deletion, but ends up with a meaningless comparison if the apparent elision is included: "More people have been to Russia than I have
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Answer ellipsis occurs in most, if not all, languages, and is a very frequent type of ellipsis that is omnipresent in everyday communication between speakers.
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etc.). The corresponding answer provides the missing information and in so doing, the redundant information that appeared in the question is elided, e.g.:
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pro-form is involved. These aspects of the theory should be kept in mind when considering the various types and instances of ellipsis enumerated below.
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Osborne, Timothy and Thomas Groß 2012. Constructions are catenae: Construction Grammar meets Dependency Grammar. Cognitive Linguistics 23, 1: 163–214.
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Lobeck, Anne. 2006. Ellipsis in DP. In The Blackwell Companion to Syntax, ed. by Martin Everaert et al., vol. 2, pp. 145–173. Oxford: Blackwell.
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The fragment answers in these two sentences are verb arguments (subject and object NPs). The fragment can also correspond to an adjunct, e.g.:
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Lappin, Shalom 1996. The interpretation of ellipsis. In The handbook of contemporary semantic theory, ed. Shalom Lappin. Oxford: Blackwell.
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While canonical cases have medial gaps as in these two sentences, the gap need not be medial, and it can even be discontinuous, e.g.:
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One trait that many types and instances of ellipsis have in common is that the appearance of ellipsis is optional. The occurrence of
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Sag, Ivan 1976. Deletion and logical form. Doctoral Dissertation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Of the various ellipsis mechanisms, VP-ellipsis has probably been studied the most and is therefore relatively well-understood.
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Merchant, Jason. 2001. The syntax of silence: Sluicing, islands, and the theory of ellipsis. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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See for instance Johnson 2008 for an ATB-movement account of gapping and Merchant 2001 for a movement account of sluicing.
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giving it the outward appearance of gapping. Pseudogapping occurs frequently in comparative and contrastive contexts:
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There are numerous widely acknowledged types of ellipsis. They include, as mentioned and briefly illustrated below:
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See Osborne and Groß 2012 or the collection of essays on dependency and valency grammar in Ágel et al. 2003/6.
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Further instances of ellipsis that do not (in a clear way) qualify as any of the ellipsis types listed above:
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involves question-answer pairs. The question focuses on an unknown piece of information, often using an
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factors, the means by which the elided elements are recovered, and the status of the elided elements.
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More work on ellipsis may need to be done before all ellipsis mechanisms are fully explained.
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though similar patterns arise cross-linguistically, with variation from language to language.
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of the remaining elements. There are numerous distinct types of ellipsis acknowledged in
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This article is about the practice of omitting words. For the punctuation mark (
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in English. The expression that is elided corresponds to a comparative morph such as
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The following two sentences illustrate nominal ellipsis with possessive determiners:
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Among experts, there is no unanimity that all of the abovementioned syntaxes form a
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VP. The ellipsis must be introduced by an auxiliary verb or by the particle
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approaches, accounts within these frameworks must posit additional
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They offered two ways to spend the day, but I couldn't decide
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appears to the left and to the right of the elided material.
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Omission of some words that are understood in the context
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Q: Do you approve of the plan? A: No, I don't approve
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They could read this book more easily than they could
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Comparative deletion occurs in clauses introduced by
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They have been eating the apples more than they have
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1281:Givenness 1206:Cataphora 1194:Phenomena 1185:Vagueness 1115:Ambiguity 1067:Reference 1047:Intension 1037:Extension 690:satisfied 519:Tomorrow. 433:tomorrow. 302:), e.g.: 261:Stripping 256:Stripping 228:persuaded 144:Stripping 67:syntactic 1612:See also 1502:Concepts 1376:Telicity 1211:Coercion 1165:Negation 1160:Modality 1110:Anaphora 843:See also 832:movement 575:happened 541:Sluicing 536:Sluicing 329:Tuesday. 205:can play 156:Sluicing 95:ellipsis 71:semantic 41:ጔλλΔÎčψÎčς 32:ellipsis 21:Ellipsis 1705:Grammar 1120:Binding 766:to help 734:approve 474:(e.g., 449:to you? 277:, also. 195:remnant 190:Gapping 185:Gapping 179:English 141:Gapping 59:context 1695:Syntax 1549:Monads 1096:Topics 837:catena 742:decide 738:refuse 544:e.g.: 374:again. 367:, too. 323:she is 310:did it 239:should 214:of me. 113:e.g., 51:clause 1241:De se 1145:Focus 1103:Areas 1072:Scope 885:Notes 803:What 800:Bill? 687:looks 617:train 372:do it 133:Types 119:girls 55:words 38: 730:know 680:beer 659:more 655:than 484:when 480:what 454:read 325:not 312:. - 243:call 241:you 230:her 127:null 110:help 69:and 1493:TTR 719:". 663:-er 661:or 633:dog 476:who 336:Not 315:not 300:not 296:not 245:me? 26:In 1681:: 740:, 736:, 732:, 482:, 478:, 357:. 355:to 30:, 1000:e 993:t 986:v 775:. 768:. 761:. 754:. 699:. 692:. 682:. 675:. 642:. 635:. 612:. 584:? 577:? 554:. 496:. 390:. 234:. 23:.

Index

Ellipsis
linguistics
Ancient Greek
clause
words
context
theoretical syntax
syntactic
semantic
linguistic theory
form–meaning correspondence
generative linguistics
VP-ellipsis
null
natural class
English
Gapping
Stripping
Verb phrase ellipsis
non-finite
pseudogapping
Answer ellipsis
interrogative word
Sluicing
Noun ellipsis
Escher sentence
constituent
phrase-structural
movement
catena

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