Fragments: Studies In Ellipsis And Gapping

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This volume contains essays on ellipsis -- the omission of understood words from a sentence -- and the closely related phenomena of gapping. This volume presents work by leading researchers on syntactic, semantic and computational aspects of ellipsis. The chapters bring together a variety of theoretical perspectives and examine a range of cross-linguistic phenomena involving ellipsis in Japanese, Arabic, Hebrew, and in English.

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Name in long format: Fragments: Studies In Ellipsis And Gapping
ISBN-10: 0195123026
ISBN-13: 9780195123029
Book pages: 320
Book language: en
Edition: 1
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Dimensions: xiii, 298 p. ; 25 cm.

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