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English coordination frequently allows the omission of verbs through syntactic ellipsis

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Is it true that English coordination frequently allows the omission of verbs through syntactic ellipsis?

Yes. Linguistic research and corpus studies extensively document that English coordination frequently involves syntactic ellipsis mechanisms such as gapping and conjunction reduction.

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The analysis

The retrieved literature extensively discusses clausal coordinate ellipsis, conjunction reduction, and gapping in English and related Germanic languages. Papers [3], [5], [9], and [10] all support the proposition that English coordination frequently features verb or clausal omission through syntactic ellipsis. There are no refuting papers.

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Generating Clausal Coordinate Ellipsis Multilingually: A Uniform Approach Based on Postediting
2009
Discusses clausal coordinate ellipsis phenomena such as gapping and conjunction reduction in English and other languages.
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Harbusch, K. & Kempen, G. (2009). Generating Clausal Coordinate Ellipsis Multilingually: A Uniform Approach Based on Postediting. doi.org. https://doi.org/10.3115/1610195.1610219

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Syntax of Dutch
2015
Examines coordination and types of ellipsis known as conjunction reduction and gapping found in coordinate structures.
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Broekhuis, H. & Corver, N. (2015). Syntax of Dutch. doi.org. https://doi.org/10.5117/9789463720502

Conjunction Reduction and Right-Node Raising
2019
Reviews conjunction reduction phenomena including forward and backward coordination reduction with English data.
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Wilder, C. (2019). Conjunction Reduction and Right-Node Raising. doi.org. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198712398.013.29

Incremental sentence production inhibits clausal coordinate ellipsis: A treebank study into Dutch and German
2011
Notes that clausal coordinate ellipsis (CCE) occurs frequently in English coordination structures based on corpus studies.
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Harbusch, K. (2011). Incremental sentence production inhibits clausal coordinate ellipsis: A treebank study into Dutch and German. doi.org. https://doi.org/10.5087/dad.2011.112

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