MANIFESTATION OF ELLIPTICITY AT DIFFERENT LEVELS OF LANGUAGE SYSTEM (BY THE MATERIAL OF J. HIGGINS’S NOVEL "SAD WIND FROM THE SEA")
Kosonozhkina Lyudmila Valentinovna
Don State Technical University
Abstract. The article analyzes ellipsis at the phonetic, lexical, syntactical and text stylistic levels. At the phonetic and lexical levels ellipsis manifests itself in the reduction of sounds and words. At the syntactical level the author identifies the English one-member and two-member elliptical sentences in the monologue and in the dialogue. The first ones are classified according to morphological intensity of a core component; in the second group the author identifies elliptical sentences represented by subordinate clauses of complex sentences, elliptical questions with direct word order, elliptical questions with elliptical clauses. Omission also comes out as an elliptical stylistic structure at the text level.
Key words and phrases: уровни языковой системы, экономия языковых средств, эллипсис, фонетическая редукция звуков, опущение союзов и лексических единиц, эллиптические предложения, одночленные и двучленные, репрезентированные члены предложения, морфологическая выраженность стержневых компонентов, стилистический приём умолчания, levels of language system, economy of linguistic means, ellipsis, phonetic reduction of sounds, omission of conjunctions and lexical units, elliptical sentences, one-member and two-member elliptical sentences, represented sentence members, morphological intensity of core components, stylistic device of omission
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