Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Contributions to the Study of Elliptical Words in Modern English
The present study was originally meant to embrace a short survey of the various categories of elliptical words in Modern English and an examination of the elliptical phenomenon as revealed in them. But the vastness of the subject and the necessity of collecting and presenting a sufficient material made it an impera tive necessity to narrow down the scope of my study so as to embrace only one particular category of elliptical words. Still, the original plan has been adhered to, in as far as I have begun with an enquiry into the delimitation of ellipsis in general, and have made elliptical personal names, as illustrating phonological ellipsis, the subject of my study. This has been done in the vague hope of possibly finding an opportunity at some future date of dealing also with the remaining categories of elliptical words. I have even been forced to omit the latter part of my examination of elliptical personal names, though it is ready in ms. Throughout the book I have used the term Modern English (mne.) in the same sense as it is used by Dr. Sweet, z'. E. To signify the period of English from the beginning of the 16th century down to the present time.
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