This type of ellipsis is usually used to show a pause or a trailing thought as in the examples in rules 2 and 3 above.Examples: She opened the door . . . and saw . . . a cake! I was thinking . . . maybe we should call home....
Textual ellipsis occurs in both speaking and writing, and is more related to specific grammar rules, with the omission of words that are in grammatically predictable sentence positions. Common examples are after the words and and but and for reducing adverbial and relative clauses. After and and...
eclipse– the obscuring of the light from one celestial body by the passage of another between it and the observer:lunar eclipse; solar eclipse;a sudden loss of importance in relation to a newly arrived person or thing:The status of the lead actress was eclipsed by a young ingénue in the...
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After pointing out some problems in the previous research,this paper applies prototype theory and concept-form mapping relation to the inquiry into some issues in the study of ellipsis.Accordingly,the author proposes some new points on the nature,judgment and cognitive rules of ellipsis with illustra...
However, as we point out in our Ellipses Rules, there is no one rule to follow regarding ellipses. Some writers and editors feel that no spaces are necessary, and others enclose the ellipsis with a space on each side. Still others put a space either directly before or directly after the ...
Extrapositions rules and discontinuous constituents Anis not available. M Baltin 被引量: 32发表: 1984年 Syntax and Semantics of It-Clefts: A Tree Adjoining Grammar Analysis the cleft pronoun is an expletive and the cleft clause bears a direct syntactic or semantic relation to the clefted constitu...
Given that (i) does not explicitly refer to (head) movement, it also correctly rules out cases of Doubly-Filled COMP or second-position clitics in sluicing contexts. To the extent that (48) is an example of sluicing, however, (and see below, Section 19.3.4, for discussion that it is)...
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As a follow up, working in logical order makes it a lot easier to also hook into line-breaking rules to decide the granularity of content that gets elided, which is how it is currently specified, and how I've done it in the examples above. ...