On Invisible Language in Modern English

<b>Winner: AEDEAN Leocadio Martín Mingorance Book Award for Theoretical and Applied English Linguistics 2020</b><br/><br/>This book investigates the syntactic phenomenon of ellipsis and the linguistic forces that trigger it. It presents the results of a corpus-based study which takes into account grammatical semantic/discursive usage-related and processing variables.<br/> <br/> Evelyn Gandón-Chapela builds upon the few empirical works on ellipsis in Present-day English to offer the first comparative analysis of ellipsis and its development throughout the recent history of the English language. Moreover the book also provides a complex query algorithm which automatically detects and retrieves cases of ellipsis leading to successful recall ratios applicable to a wide range of parsed corpora.