L'ellipse ou la maîtrise du manque

Claudine Haroche

Dominique Maingueneau

pp. 143-150

in: L'Ellipse grammaticale, Histoire Épistémologie Langage 5 (1), 1983.

Abstract

that assign an interpretation to deep empty structures. As a result, where as emptiness used to be relegated to the borders, now the · aim is paradoxically to grant it a necessity within the same borders. There, however, is the rub for the requirement of completeness and consistency of linguistic description: can gaps be set up as a natural class? Can language itself account for the rifts it encompasses?