浅探英语的名词性省略

An Analysis of the English Nominal Ellipsis

讨论了英语名词补语内中心词的省略问题。原名词短语中心词被省略,句法成份仍然不变,整个短语的句法功能由保留的修饰词来代替。在分析英语名词性省略时,可按原名词短语的词序进行:指示词—数词—性质形容词—分类词—中心词—后置修饰词。

The nominal ellipsis discussed in this essay is the ellipsis of the head word within a noun phrase. The function of the original noun phrase with a head word omitted can be taken on by the elements left in the phrase, and the phrase still keeps its original structure. To make an analysis of the nominal ellipsis, a word order of the original noun phrase can be followed as DeicticNumerativeEpithetClassifierHead WordQualifier, DNECHQ, for short.