left-edge deletion

English

Examples (linguistics)
  • "[Have you] ever been there?"
  • "[I'm] going shopping. [Do you] want to come?"

Noun

left-edge deletion (countable and uncountable, plural left-edge deletions)

  1. (linguistics) In informal English, ellipsis at the start of an utterance or sentence.
    Synonym: left-edge ellipsis
    Hyponyms: conversational deletion, diary drop

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