Reduced Conditionals and Focus
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The following terminology will be used. The clause containing the ellipsis (dann besbI£he ieh immer den Peter "then I always -vts# Peter" in ( 1b)) is called ellipsis clause. The constituent --other than dann ("then"), immer ("always") and possibly other particles-that remains expressed in the ellipsis clause is called the remnant (den Peter "the Peter") . The clause from which the elided information is retrieved will be referred to as antecedent clause (ich wen besuche "I visit someone") . Finally, the constituent in the antecedent clause that corresponds to the remnant in the ellipsis clause will be called antecedent (constituent) or correlate (wen "someone" in ( 1b)) .
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