What is a summary relation?

A summary relation is a contraction relation in which a proposition(s) repeats, in abbreviated form, the information of a group of propositions previously expressed.

• What is a contraction relation?

Mann and Thompson 1987b 72

Beekman and Callow 1974 299

Beekman, Callow, and Kopesec 1981 97

Context for this page:

• Concept module: summary relation
• In overview module: Glossary (Linguistics): S
• In modular book: Glossary of linguistic terms, by Eugene E. Loos (general editor), Susan Anderson (editor), Dwight H., Day, Jr. (editor), Paul C. Jordan (editor), and J. Douglas Wingate (editor)
• In bookshelf: Linguistics

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