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A Linguistic Handbook of French for Translators and Language Students
Paul Boucher
[Not in series 216] 2018
► pp. 169–192

Chapter 11
Anaphora and ellipsis

Article outline
  • 11.1Introduction
  • 11.2Anaphora in French and English
  • 11.3Determiners
  • 11.4Personal pronouns
    • Rules
  • 11.5Demonstratives
    • 11.5.1Translating French demonstratives
      • Discussion
    • 11.5.2Translating English demonstratives
    • 11.5.3Conclusion
  • 11.6Ellipsis
    • 11.6.1Grammatical ellipsis
      • 11.6.1.1VP deletion
      • 11.6.1.2“Reprise” constructions
      • 11.6.1.3Coordination
      • 11.6.1.4Nouns
      • 11.6.1.5Non-deletion
    • 11.6.2Situational ellipsis
    • 11.6.3Stylistic ellipsis
  • Notes
  • Further reading on ellipsis and coherence
References (8)
Further reading on ellipsis and coherence
Baumgarten, N. 2008 “Explicitness in translation and interpreting: a critical review and some empirical evidence (of an elusive concept)”, In Across Languages and Cultures, Akadémiai Kiado, 9, 2: 177–203.Google Scholar
Blanche-Benveniste, Claire. 1997. Approches de la langue parlée en français. Paris-Gap: Ophrys.Google Scholar
Busquets, J., Denis, P. 2001. « L’Ellipse modale en français ». In Cahiers de Grammaire 26: 55–74.Google Scholar
Carlson, K. 2002. Parallelism and Prosody in the Processing of Ellipsis Sentences. New York-London: Routledge.Google Scholar
Hendricks, P. 2004. “Coherence Relations, Ellipsis and Contrastive Topics”. In Journal of Semantics, 21, 2: 133–153.Google Scholar
Kerbrat-Orecchioni, C. 1986. L’implicite, Paris: Armand Colin.Google Scholar
Meyer, C. F. 1995. “Cordination Ellipsis in Spoken and Written American English”. In Language, Sciences, 17(3): 241–269.Google Scholar
Nariyama, S. 2004. “Subject Ellipsis in English”. In Journal of Pragmatics, 36, 2: 237–264.Google Scholar