See also cataphoric reference, cohesion ‘Ellipsis’ refers to the missing out of part of a sentence in speech or in writing where the omitted words are implied from the context. In conversation, we often rely on the context to support what...

/ / n. Any construction in which some material which is required for semantic interpretation and which could have been overtly present is absent but immediately recoverable from the linguistic context, particularly when that material is overtly present...

Ellipsis (plural ellipses; from Greek ἔλλειψις 'omission') in printing and writing refers to the row of three full stops (… or . . . ) or asterisks (***) indicating an intentional omission. This punctuation mark is also called...