The elusive ellipsis – the complex history of a vague grammatical concept in need of empirical grounding

This paper reports a part of the larger corpus-based study, which investigates English- German contrasts in text cohesion and discourse organisation. It has its focus on ellipsis-antecedent-relations that contribute to the cohesiveness of texts. The present work is intended to contribute to the deve...

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Main Author: Menzel Katrin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2016-06-01
Series:Lege Artis. Language yesterday, today, tomorrow
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Online Access:http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/lart.2016.1.issue-1/lart-2016-0004/lart-2016-0004.xml?format=INT