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<div>In syntax, the term '''ellipsis''' is used for cases of rule-governed omission of constituents that are notionally and syntactically required in other contexts. Most typically, ellipsis occurs in contexts where the notional content of the [[to ellipt|ellipted]] constituents is recoverable from the immediately preceding context.<br />
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===Examples===<br />
(in the following examples, the ellipsis site is shown by "[...]")<br />
* English<br />
* ''Pat plays soccer, but Dany doesn't [...].''<br />
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===Comments===<br />
The tern ''ellipsis'' is rarely used with a strictly defined meaning. Linguists have often attempted to distinguish various different types of non-expression of otherwise syntactically required constituents, using notions such as [[deletion]], [[null instantiation]] and [[zero anaphora]]. There is no agreement about how these terms should be used and which distinctions need to be drawn.<br />
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===Subtypes===<br />
* [[gapping]], [[pseudogapping]]<br />
* [[conjunction reduction]]<br />
* [[right-node raising]]<br />
* [[Verb Phrase ellipsis]]<br />
* [[Noun Phrase ellipsis]]<br />
* [[sluicing]]<br />
* [[stripping]], [[bare argument ellipsis]]<br />
* ''analipsis''<br />
* ''catalipsis''<br />
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===Origin===<br />
From Latin ''ellipsis'', which in turn is from Greek ''elleipsis'' 'a falling short, defect, ellipse', from ''elleipein'' 'to fall short, leave out', from ''en-'' 'in' + ''leipein'' 'to leave'. The grammatical sense is first attested in 1612.<br />
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===Other languages===<br />
German [[Ellipse]] Russian [[эллипсис]] Spanish [[elipsis]]<br />
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