ellipt
English
editEtymology
editBack-formation from ellipsis.
Pronunciation
editAudio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɪpt
Verb
editellipt (third-person singular simple present ellipts, present participle ellipting, simple past and past participle ellipted)
- (linguistics) To omit (from an utterance) by ellipsis.
- 2013, Noel Burton-Roberts, Analysing Sentences, page 210:
- […] a couple of further differences between restrictive and non-restrictive relative clauses: (1) in contrast with restrictives, the wh-phrase in non-restrictives cannot be ellipted; […]