A Cognitive Approach to Ellipsis

Abstract

The study of syntactic ellipsis represented by generative linguistics has been dominant since 1950s. Comparatively, the cognitive study of ellipsis is fewer and starts later than it. The paper poses challenges and raises questions toward the traditional syntactical ellipsis study, and comes up with its cognitive view of ellipsis. With the development of cognitive sciences, the cognitive study of ellipsis will flourish in the future.