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

----- 现代英语中的隐形语言：基于语料库的省略研究

ISBN: 9781350064515 出版年：2020 页码：307 Evelyn Gandon-Chapela Bloomsbury Publishing

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 Gandón-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.