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Aberrant ellipsis: advertisers do, but why?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 October 2008

Alan Garnham  and
Jane Oakhill
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Abstract

An account of recent theorizing about grammatical ellipsis, with examples of how advertisers have been bending the rules

Type
Research Article
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English Today , Volume 8 , Issue 1 , January 1992 , pp. 37 - 40
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1992

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