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The acquisition of nominal ellipsis by preschool children: an experiment on the role of syntactic merge

open access: yes, 2023
reservedIn this dissertation the data yielded by an experiment on noun-drop acquisition by children aged three-to-five is analysed. First, language as a communication system is introduced, then the focus passes onto syntax and the phenomenon of ellipsis.
MIO, ALESSIA
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ELLIPSIS IN ERNEST HEMINGWAY’S SHORT STORY HILLS LIKE WHITE ELEPHANTS

open access: yesLanguage Literacy: Journal of Linguistics, Literature, and Language Teaching
Ellipsis is a unique linguistic technique that plays a significant role in maintaining continuity in text. It is often used to avoid unnecessary repetition and achieve a consistent style, as long as the readers or listeners understand the omissions ...
Khelan Mohammed Salih
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UNVEILING COHERENCE: ANALYZING GRAMMATICAL DEVICES IN RECOUNT TEXT

open access: yesEnglish Review: Journal of English Education, 2023
The purpose of this study is to examine the grammatical cohesive devices used in the recount text writing of bilingual students. The cohesive device is crucial because it consists of grammatical and lexical devices that contribute to the writing’s ...
Dewi Nurpitriyani   +3 more
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Fragmenting Meaning: Clarification Ellipsis and Nominal Anaphora [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
One of the most commonplace contextual effects of an utterance is the potential for phrasal clarification ellipses (CE), exemplified in (la), in which an attempt is made to clarify one or more constituents of the previous utterance. An utterance such as B’s in (1b2) has at least two types of readings: one reading (the clausal reading) is paraphraseable
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The Ellipsis and Hierarchy in Nominals

open access: yesStudies in Generative Grammar, 2009
Within the tradition of the so-called cartographic approach to syntax(cf. Rizzi 1997; Cinque 1994, 1999; Ntelitheos 2003, 2004), the fundamental proposition is that a universally ordered set of functional heads (e.g., topic or focus) occupies independent positions with distinct semantic or pragmatic properties.
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ELLIPSIS IN ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON’S TREASURE ISLAND NOVEL [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This article was aimed to find out what ellipses were used and how ellipses were expressed in Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island novel. This article also used qualitative approach and content analysis technique. In addition, Documentation was the
Syaifura, Oktri   +2 more
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Metalinguistic ellipsis: playful silence in adverts, titles, and slogans

open access: yes, 2022
‘Metalinguistic ellipsis’ flouts the conditions on ellipsis to playful and memorable effect; e.g. Everyday vehicles that aren’t, A DP that may not be, and Yes We Can.

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Surface Functionalization Modulates Collective Cell Behavior Near Topological Defects Induced by Topographical Patterning

open access: yesAdvanced Materials Interfaces, EarlyView.
Strongly adhered cells align with concentric circular ridges and exhibit predominantly tangential motion, whereas weakly adhered cells fail to follow topographical guidance and display enhanced radial inward motion. ABSTRACT Living cells establish long‐range orientational order through collective alignment, giving rise to topological defects whose ...
Prasoon Awasthi   +4 more
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The propredicative clitic in Italo-romance: a micro-parametric variation approach

open access: yesQuaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali, 2020
In this paper we describe the distribution of propredicative clitics in nominal copular constructions across different Italo-romance varieties. Different lexical items are recruited from the lexicon to cliticize the predicative NP, all of them either ...
Paolo Lorusso, Andrea Moro
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The semantics of ellipsis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
There are four phenomena that are particularly troublesome for theories of ellipsis: the existence of sloppy readings when the relevant pronouns cannot possibly be bound; an ellipsis being resolved in such a way that an ellipsis site in the antecedent is
Elbourne, Paul
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