Open AccessElliptical Sentence In Open File A Cliff Hardy Novel by Peter Corris
Author(s) -
Putu Mesia Pertiwi,
I Gusti Bagus Wahyu Nugraha Putra,
Ida Bagus Gde Nova Winarta
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
lingual journal of language and culture/lingual
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2716-3091
pISSN - 2527-6719
DOI - 10.24843/ljlc.2021.v11.i01.p04
Subject(s) - sentence , ellipsis (linguistics) , linguistics , computer science , syntax , repetition (rhetorical device) , word (group theory) , natural language processing , mathematics , artificial intelligence , philosophy
Ellipsis is a branch of syntax that study about elimination word to avoid repetition word in the sentence. This study concern to find out the types of elliptical sentence and analyze the constituent structure of sentence in the novel by Peter Corris in title Open File A Cliff Hardy. This study applied the theory proposed by Quirk and Greenbaum (1973) to find out the types of elliptical sentence and the theory from Brown and Miller (1991) to analyze the constituent structure of sentence. The data were collected by documentation method and analyzed descriptively by qualitative method. The finding shows that there are five types of elliptical sentence which the most dominant is ellipsis of subject (and auxiliary)