Hurford, The Origins of Grammar: Language in the Light of Evolution. The gapping construction is classy, and restricted to quite elevated registers, though it is not lacking entirely from spoken English."
But his colleague, with earthier instincts, comments on this line with 'Those foreign women really have class.' This rings true. Tao and Meyer (2006) found, after an extensive search of corpora, that 'gapping is confined to writing rather than speech.' In the Elia Kazan movie The Last Tycoon, a powerful film director rejects a scene in which a French actress is given the line 'Nor I you,' on the grounds that this is unnatural speech. An example is the English 'Gapping' construction, as in John ate an apple and Mary a peach, where an implicit ate is omitted from the second clause, understood as Mary ate a peach. "Certainly, some constructions are overwhelmingly found in written language. Haegeman and Jacqueline Guéron, English Grammar: A Generative Perspective. gap, breach (verb) make an opening or gap in. Multiple definition and sample use of the word. In (154b) the verb is gapped but, crucially, its NP complement is left behind. GAPPED definition and meaning with sample usage from multiple dictionaries. More particularly, gapping in (154b) deletes the second verb of two co-ordinated clauses this is possible because the deleted verb is identical to the verb of the first sentence. Gapping is an operation which deletes a constituent in one sentence under identity with a constituent of the same type in a preceding sentence. (154) illustrates a pattern known as gapping.
(Hadumod Bussmann, Routledge Dictionary of Language and Linguistics. The task consists of a gapped text followed by the extracts from the text and one further. There is only one correct answer for each gap.
The task requires candidates to select from eight options the correct extract to fit in each of the seven gaps in the text. According to Ross the direction of the gapping depends on the constituent branching in the deep structure, and provides insight into the underlying word order of a language. C2 Proficient (CPE) Reading Part 6 : Tips & Strategy. Gapping can work forwards, as above, or backwards as in the deletion of the first mention of the word. Caroline plays the flute and Louise (plays) the piano. Gap insurance coverage may apply if youre underwater on your auto loan (meaning, you owe more than the car is worth) when your vehicle is stolen or totaled. describe a transformation which creates gaps in a sentence after a conjunction by deleting a verb which would otherwise reappear, e.g.
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