Types of Ellipsis in Administrative Style and Fiction

Abstract

This bachelor paper deals with ellipsis and its occurrence in the administrative style and fiction. The paper is divided into two main parts, a theoretical part and a practical part. The theoretical part defines the term ellipsis from two different points of view, recoverability of elements and a position within a construction, and comments on ellipted sentence elements concerning their syntactic function. Findings from the theoretical part are used in the practical part. The aim is to carry out a quantitative analysis and compare occurrence of ellipsis in the administrative style and fiction.