Abstract
Every language uses elliptical structures, but how frequently nominal, verbal and clasual ellipsis occur in Hindi and English language, is the focus of this study. This paper is an effort to analyze ellipsis in two short stories: a work in Hindi language (a short story by Munshi Premchand), and a work in English language (a short story by Ernest Hemingway). The comparison is supported by the statistical analysis. The goal of this paper is to illustrate the diversity and complexity of ellipsis in two writers' works through language. The paper follows the theoretical functional grammar approach of Halliday and Hasan.
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the story (The) present paper is an effort to analyze ellipsis in two short stories
The study concentrates on the way to go from data to the description rather than on raising question: how ellipsis is learned or acquired? Two literary works which are considered to be the masterpiece in their languages, namely the works of Hemingway in English and Premchand in Hindi has been taken into account in the study
The paper follows the cohesion and theoretical functional grammar approach of Halliday and Hasan [3], and the goal of Ellipsis, a cohesive device, is a universal linguistic phenomenon which is generally employed without any real awareness of how it is structured by the language users
Summary
Two literary works which are considered to be the masterpiece in their languages, namely the works of Hemingway in English and Premchand in Hindi has been taken into account in the study. Since adult second language learners tend to focus more on the grammatical structures of the target language, the present study has been undertaken, keeping in view the growing demands of learning English in general, and learning English in Hindi speaking states in India. Secret) (Premchand) [2] have been studied in this paper. The paper follows the cohesion and theoretical functional grammar approach of Halliday and Hasan [3], and the goal of Ellipsis, a cohesive device, is a universal linguistic phenomenon which is generally employed without any real awareness of how it is structured by the language users. Unlike reference and substitution, is a substitution by zero
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