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Linguipedia: New page: In syntax, the term '''ellipsis''' is used for cases of rule-governed omission of constituents that are notionally and syntactically required in other contexts. Most typically, ellipsis oc...

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New page: In syntax, the term '''ellipsis''' is used for cases of rule-governed omission of constituents that are notionally and syntactically required in other contexts. Most typically, ellipsis oc...

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In syntax, the term '''ellipsis''' is used for cases of rule-governed omission of constituents that are notionally and syntactically required in other contexts. Most typically, ellipsis occurs in contexts where the notional content of the [[to ellipt|ellipted]] constituents is recoverable from the immediately preceding context.

===Examples===
(in the following examples, the ellipsis site is shown by "[...]")
* English
* ''Pat plays soccer, but Dany doesn't [...].''

===Comments===
The tern ''ellipsis'' is rarely used with a strictly defined meaning. Linguists have often attempted to distinguish various different types of non-expression of otherwise syntactically required constituents, using notions such as [[deletion]], [[null instantiation]] and [[zero anaphora]]. There is no agreement about how these terms should be used and which distinctions need to be drawn.

===Subtypes===
* [[gapping]]
* [[coordination reduction]]
* [[right-node raising]]
* ''analipsis''
* ''catalipsis''

===Origin===
From Latin ''ellipsis'', which in turn is from Greek ''elleipsis'' 'a falling short, defect, ellipse', from ''elleipein'' 'to fall short, leave out', from ''en-'' 'in' + ''leipein'' 'to leave'. The grammatical sense is first attested in 1612.

===other languages===
*German [[Ellipse]]

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[[Category:Syntax]]

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 ===Other languages===
-German [[Ellipse]] Russian [[эллипсис]] Spanish [[elipsis]]
+German [[Ellipse]]<br>
-{{dc}}
+{{dc}}{{ref}}
 [[Category:Syntax]]
 [[Category:Ellipsis]]

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 ===Subtypes===
-* [[gapping]], [[subgapping]]
+* [[gapping]], [[pseudogapping]]
-* [[coordination reduction]]
+* [[conjunction reduction]]
 * [[right-node raising]]
 * [[stripping]], [[bare argument ellipsis]]
 * ''analipsis''

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 *German [[Ellipse]]
 *Russian [[эллипсис]]
 {{dc}}
 [[Category:Syntax]]