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Klein, Wolfgang H. 1981. Some rules of regular ellipsis in German. In Klein, Wolfgang H. and Willem J.M. Levelt, eds. Crossing the boundaries in linguistics: Studies presented to Manfred Bierwisch. Reidel. pp. 51–78.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

context | elliptical construction, comprehension of | intonation

Annotation

A general inquiry into the phenomenon of 'regular ellipsis', the understanding of which depends on contextual information, and in particular on the immediate linguistic context. 5 rules are presented and discussed, and the importance of intonational conditions is demonstrated.