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Fragments: Studies in Ellipsis and Gapping
Fragments Studies in Ellipsis and Gapping Author:Soas Ellipsis Workshop (1996 University of London) 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 ellipis. The chapters bring together a variety of theoretical perspectives and examine a range of cross-l... more »inguistic phenomena involving ellipsis in Japanese, Arabic, Hebrew, and in English. This volume will be of interest to syntacticians, semanticists, computational linguists, and cognitive scientists.« less