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What can silence tell us about the syntax of a sentence? How do we know what meaning to fill in when words are missing? In this week's episode, we talk about ellipsis: what rules are at work to tell us how to use it, how sentence structure plays into what words we can leave out, and whether words are even missing at all, or just hiding.
This is Topic #94!
This week's tag language: Scots Gaelic!
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Sources:
Much of the discussion here is based on Andrew Carnie's Syntax: A Generative Introduction, 3rd edition, as well as his dissertation, which can be found at: dingo.sbs.arizona.edu/~carnie/...
We also used Jason Merchant's survey of different approaches to ellipsis: home.uchicago.edu/merchant/pub...
We also consulted Brendan Gillon's upcoming book, Natural Language Semantics: mitpress.mit.edu/books/natural...
And the Wikipedia page on ellipsis is a pretty helpful place to start! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellipsis...)
Looking forward to next time!