A Contrastive Study of Pseudogapping and Gapping in Arabic and English

Abstract

This paper sheds light on two types of ellipsis i.e., Pseudogapping and Gapping and puts each of them in a comparison between Arabic and English languages. It tries to account for the similarities between the two languages in the application of these two types focusing on deleting the verb within these constructions. The methodology followed here is descriptive and analytical. The study reveals that there is a high degree of similarity between the two languages in this respect.

Keywords: Ellipsis, Arabic, English.