UNINTENTIONAL IMPLICIT MEANING IN INCOMPLETE SENTENCES

Abstract

The paper studies incomplete sentences as one of the linguistic structures conveying unintentional implicit meaning. The research mainly deals with the examination of fully or partially uttered structures of incomplete sentences in dialogues, thus decoding and interpreting the possible versions of implicit meaning. Also, an attempt is made to point out the differences of incomplete and elliptical sentences. The specific feature of incomplete sentences is the omission of both semantic and verbal components, that is what makes them differ from elliptical sentences.