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Author McShane, Marjorie J

Title A Theory of Ellipsis
Published Cary : Oxford University Press, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (272 pages)
Contents Abbreviations; Notes about Examples; 1. Getting Started; 2. Object Ellipsis: Preliminaries; 3. Direct Object Ellipsis with a Like Antecedent; 4. Direct Object Ellipsis with a Nominative Antecedent; 5. Direct Object Ellipsis with an Oblique Antecedent; 6. Elided Lexically Case-Marked Objects; 7. Unexpressed Objects That Do Not or May Not Represent Syntactic Ellipsis; 8. Head Noun Ellipsis ... or Not?; 9. Verbal Ellipsis with One Licensor; 10. Verbal Ellipsis with a Combination of Licensors; 11. Ellipsis of Minor Parts of Speech; 12. Dependencies in Ellipsis: A Polish Case Study
13. More Elliptical PhenomenaNotes; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
Summary This book presents a comprehensive theory of ellipsis that supports the formal, cross-linguistic description of elliptical phenomena. In contrast to earlier work, this study focuses on the interconnected factors that determine whether ellipsis should or should not be used in a given context
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Grammar, Comparative and general -- Ellipsis.
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Ellipsis
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2004043497
ISBN 9780195346480
0195346483
1280534591
9781280534591
1423722140
9781423722144
1602565317
9781602565319