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On the omission of articles and copulae in German newspaper headlines
- Source: Linguistic Variation, Volume 17, Issue 2, Jan 2017, p. 186 - 204
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- 26 Jan 2018
Abstract
This paper argues based on a corpus-linguistic study that both omitted articles and copulae in German headlines are to be treated as null elements NA and NC. Both items need to be licensed by a specific (parsing) strategy known as discourse orientation ( Huang, 1984 ), which is also applicable in the special register of headlines. It is shown that distinguishing between discourse and sentence orientation and correlating these two strategies with λ-binding and existential quantification, respectively, naturally accounts for an asymmetry in article omission observed in Stowell (1991) .
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