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ellipsis
a strategy for identificational constructions in which the presupposed open proposition is deleted, or sometimes expressed only by a pro-verb. Example: in English, elliptical responses to the question Who took the cookies? are It was JIM, JIM, or JIM did (with the pro-verb form did), in contrast to the full prosodic strategy JIM took the cookies or the equational strategy It was JIM who took the cookies. (Section 11.4.2)
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