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1. WHY? – “Other things being equal, language users follow the maxim, ‘Reduce as much as possible’ ”
Quirk & Greenbaum pg 247, A Student’s Grammar of the English Language, Longman 1990.
2. Recoverability – substitutes and ellipted elements can be recovered from the situational, structural or
textual context.
3. Antecedents & replaced expressions don’t always necessarily refer to the same thing; what is
replaced is the form not the (semantic) content..
Eg. : Fiona got a first prize this year and I got one last year.
( The prize I got is not identical to the prize which Fiona got).