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

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  • Author: Evelyn Gandon-Chapela
  • File Size: 3 MB
  • Format: PDF
  • Length: 312 pages
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
  • Publication Date: January 9, 2020
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B0814DVMBC
  • ISBN-10: 1350064513
  • ISBN-13: 9781350064515

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About The Author

Evelyn Gandon-Chapela

This ebook, On Invisible Language in Modern English: A Corpus-based Approach to Ellipsis (PDF) investigates the syntactic phenomenon of ellipsis and the linguistic forces that set off it. It presents the outcomes of a corpus-primarily based examine which takes into consideration grammatical, semantic/discursive, utilization-associated and processing variables. Evelyn Gandón-Chapela builds upon the few empirical works on the ellipsis in Present-day English to supply the primary comparative evaluation of ellipsis and its improvement all through the current historical past of the English language. Moreover, the ebook additionally supplies a fancy question algorithm that robotically detects and retrieves instances of ellipsis, main to profitable recall ratios, relevant to a variety of parsed corpora.

Review

The first sustained diachronic corpus investigation of elliptical phenomena utilizing computerized detection strategies for contemporary and earlier phases of English. Gandón-Chapela has found and categorized a powerful vary of recent instance varieties, and this ebook is certain to function the muse for a variety of future work.” ― Jason Merchant, Vice Provost and Lorna P. Straus Professor of Linguistics, University of Chicago, USA