CROSS-MODULAR APPROACHES TO ELLIPSIS

In this paper we present an empirical study of elliptical phenomena carried out on a spontaneous speech corpus of Spanish annotated with event structures and coreferences. The latter have allowed us to automatically identify elliptical fragments, as well as their antecedents and to measure the distance in sentences and turns between them. We also have looked into the nature of elliptical utterances without an explicit linguistic source and to their relation with the context.

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