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Ellipsis and the structure of discourse [PDF]
Journal of Semantics, 2003 Many authors have suggested that ellipsis and other processes of reduction require a certain similarity or parallelism between the reduced clause and some antecedent clause in discourse. We claim that discourse structure constrains the way in which ellipsis satisfies a parallelism constraint: the parallelism match must involve two clauses that are ...
Hardt, Daniel, Romero, Maribel
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Ellipsis and zeugma in Portuguese [PDF]
, 2017 In this article such a figure of speech as ellipsis in Portuguese is considered. An analysis of ellipsis, its functions, properties and features is conducted.
Chugunov, Anton N. +6 more
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Book review: The Syntactic Licensing of Ellipsis [PDF]
, 2011 Book review of The Syntactic Licensing of Ellipsis by Lobke ...
Gary Thoms, Thoms, Gary, Thoms, G.
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, 2018 An ellipsis: the omission from speech of a word or words that are able to be understood from contextual clues.
Kabealo, Ruksana
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Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2016 This paper investigates TP-ellipsis in Spanish in the context of multiple-complementizer clauses (i.e., … que XP que ellipsis licensor ellipsis site). The paper argues for a standard ΣP-account of TP ellipsis, with the polarity/focal item (e.g., también ...
Julio Villa-García
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Sameness, Ellipsis and Anaphor
Proceedings of the Amsterdam Colloquium, 2011 We compare explicit assertions of sameness with analogous elliptical and anaphoric expressions, and find striking differences in their interpretation. We account for those differences with a two part proposal: first, we propose that same is additive, similar to too. Second, same must take scope over a containing event-denoting expression.
Hardt, Daniel +2 more
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Modal Ellipsis in Najdi Arabic
, 2023 This paper discusses modal ellipsis in Najdi Arabic (NA) as a case of VP ellipsis. One of the goals of this paper is to show whether or not modal ellipsis exists in NA. It has been argued that modal ellipsis should be considered as a type of VP ellipsis.
Raneem S. Alsaud
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Eternal (English, Teaching, Learning & Research Journal), 2019 Ellipsis is an omitting part of the sentence that may occur in the English novel. Some authors write a novel tend to use ellipsis in their work. Learners who read English novel are likely to find the author’s writing style which study is aimed to ...
Andi - Masniati
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Glossa, 2019 There are two common competing conceptions of how ellipsis can be resolved: in the first, ellipsis is resolved by constructing unpronounced syntactic representations at the ellipsis site; in the second, ellipsis can be resolved by consulting the semantic/
Jason Merchant, Julian Grove, Ming Xiang
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Quantifying mutual-understanding in dialogue [PDF]
, 2012 PhDThere are two components of communication that provide a natural index of mutual-understanding in dialogue. The first is Repair; the ways in which people detect and deal with problems with understanding.
Colman, Marcus, Marcus Colman
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