elliptical sentences .
Ellipsis in sentence-structure is a natural syntactic process in linguistic
development presented as normal practices in many, if not all, languages. In terms
of traditional grammar, elliptical sentences are generally identified as sentences
with the subject or predicate missing. Some grammarians hold another point of
view recognising ellipsis also in sentences where the secondary parts of the
sentence are felt as missing. Such was A. M. Peshkovsky' s treatment of elliptical
sentences in Russian. This view was also shared by B. Ilyish, L. S. Barkhudarov
and D. A. Shtell
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