Ellipsis and Discourse (Dissertation Proposal)

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Technical Reports (CIS)
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Hardt, Daniel
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In human discourse there is much that is communicated without being explicitly stated. The grammar of natural language provides a broad array of mechanisms for such implicit communication. One example of this is verb phrase ellipsis, in which a verb phrase is elided, its position marked only by an auxiliary verb. Such elliptical constructions are generally easily and unambiguously understood. In this proposal I will attempt to explain how this is accomplished.

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1992-03-01
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University of Pennsylvania Department of Computer and Information Science Technical Report No. MS-CIS-92-21.
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