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CATHERINE FUCHS: A transformational version of ellipsis: deletion in Harris' syntaxe The state of Harris's theory referred to here is presented in Notes du Cours de Syntaxe (1976). Although the word «ellipsis» does not appear explicitly, it is clear that sorne transformations, in particular the deletion transformations, deal with ellipsis phenomena. A brief review of the various types of deletion set up by Harris raises the following questions: (i) the limits ofellipsis? (cf. link to transformations other than deletion) (li) the interpretation of the ellipsis phenomenon? (cf. the notion of weak information content); (iii) the conditions of ellipsis? (cf. univocal recoverability -but problem of the ambiguity of sorne ellipses); (iv) the theoretical status of ellipsis? (a linguistic fact or a metalinguistic tool of analysis -hence in particular the problem of the paraphrastic properties of the relation between an elliptic structure and its developped counterpart).

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