a description of ellipsis in Russian (book; discount coupon)

[Marge McShane]

Hi all.

I recently published a book about ellipsis that some of you might find
useful. In spite of its title (A Theory of Ellipsis), more than half of the
book is a completely accessible (i.e., non-theoretical) description of how
ellipsis works in Russian -- the type you'd expect to find in grammars of
Russian if they treated the subject in sufficient detail (surprisingly, they
don't). There's also a chapter about ellipsis in Polish. So, if you're
studying or teaching Russian (or Polish), you might want to take a look.

As for the "theory", it's actually a motivated methodology for description
that can be applied cross-linguistically -- no generative grammar here (see
my dissertation for that).

If you happen to be interested in computational or typological linguistics,
there are those angles as well, but nothing that will get in the way of
those of you who aren't.

You can look at the table of contents and print out a discount coupon from
the publisher (Oxford University Press) at my web site:

http://ilit.umbc.edu/PubMcShane.htm

Best wishes,

Marge McShane

(Apologies for multiple listings.)

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