On Invisible Language in Modern English: A Corpus-based Approach to Ellipsis

By Evelyn Gandón-Chapela

This book investigates the syntactic phenomenon of ellipsis and the linguistic forces that trigger it. It presents the results of a corpus-based study which takes into account grammatical, semantic/discursive, usage-related and processing variables.

Evelyn Gand n-Chapela builds upon the few empirical works on ellipsis in Present-day English to offer the first comparative analysis of ellipsis and its development throughout the recent history of the English language. Moreover, the book also provides a complex query algorithm which automatically detects and retrieves cases of ellipsis, leading to successful recall ratios, applicable to a wide range of parsed corpora.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350064513
• ISBN13: 9781350064515
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"