ellipt

[Neal Whitman]

My post on the subject of the verb corresponding to "ellipsis":
http://literalminded.wordpress.com/2008/08/23/ellipsis-elision-suppletion/

I didn't think about the verb form "ellipt" at the time, only "elipse" and
(what I take to be suppletion) "elide". I'll have to put an update on the
post.

Neal Whitman
Email: nwhitman at ameritech.net
Blog: http://literalminded.wordpress.com

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> Not in OED.
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> Verb form corresponding to the noun "ellipsis".
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> "ellipt" gives me 35,000 hits, but without quotes 71,880, some of them
> as <elliptical>, etc.
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> CGEL p1456, footnote, says the word is "reasonably well established in
> modern grammatical studies."  Rodney Huddleston says he couldn't find
> it in any dictionaries, but I found it in one online dictionary:
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> http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/ellipt
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> (Watch out for pop-up windows, or turn them off first.)
>
> Some of the google hits are also of explanations/definitions of the term.
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