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• Publisher : Unknown Publisher
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• Release Date : 28 May 2024

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

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A primary goal of contemporary theoretical linguistics is to develop a theory of the correspondence between sound (or gesture) and meaning. This sound-meaning correspondence breaks down completely in the case

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 03 March 2005

Ellipsis is the non-expression of one or more sentence elements whose meaning can be reconstructed either from the context or from a person's knowledge of the world. In speech and

• Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
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• Release Date : 28 May 2024

This handbook is the first volume to provide a comprehensive, in-depth, and balanced discussion of ellipsis, a phenomena whereby expressions in natural language appear to be incomplete but are still

• Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
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• Release Date : 03 March 2005

This book presents a comprehensive theory of ellipsis that supports the formal, cross-lingusitic description of elliptical phenomena.

• Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
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• Release Date : 28 May 2024

This monograph presents a theory of ellipsis licensing in terms of Agree and applies it to several elliptical phenomena in both English and Dutch. The author makes two main claims:

• Publisher : ISSN
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• Release Date : 28 May 2024

This volume presents a cross-section of research addressing the interaction of two prominent areas in linguistic theory: parenthesis and ellipsis. The contributions address various theoretical questions raised by 'incomplete' parenthetical

• Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
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• Release Date : 10 May 2005

The papers in this volume address two main topics: Q1: What is the nature, and especially the scope, of ellipsis in natural language? Q2: What are the linguistic/philosophical implications

• Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
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• Release Date : 31 August 2010

This volume brings together original papers by linguists and philosophers on the role of context and perspective in language and thought. Several contributions are concerned with the contextualism/relativism debate,

• Publisher : MIT Press
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• Release Date : 28 May 1999

This is the first experimental study of Principle B with verb phrase ellipsis and properties of the interpretation of empty pronouns in ellipsis. Among the universal principles are those known