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PRONUNCIATION OF GAPPING

gapping  [ˈɡæpɪŋ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF GAPPING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Gapping is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES GAPPING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

gapping

Gapping

In linguistics, gapping is a type of ellipsis that occurs in the non-initial conjuncts of coordinate structures. Gapping usually elides minimally a finite verb and further any non-finite verbs that are present. This material is "gapped" from the non-initial conjuncts of a coordinate structure. Gapping exists in many languages, but by no means in all of them, and gapping has been studied extensively and is therefore one of the more understood ellipsis mechanisms. Stripping is viewed as a particular manifestation of the gapping mechanism where just one remnant appears in the gapped/stripped conjunct.

Definition of gapping in the English dictionary

The definition of gapping in the dictionary is a rule that deletes repetitions of a verb, as in the sentence Bill voted for Smith, Sam for McKay, and Dave for Harris. Other definition of gapping is the act or practice of taking a gap year.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH GAPPING


capping
ˈkæpɪŋ
clapping
ˈklæpɪŋ
flapping
ˈflæpɪŋ
giftwrapping
ˈɡɪftræpɪŋ
happing
ˈhæpɪŋ
kidnaping
ˈkɪdˌnæpɪŋ
kidnapping
ˈkɪdnæpɪŋ
lapping
ˈlæpɪŋ
mapping
ˈmæpɪŋ
nonoverlapping
ˌnɒnəʊvəˈlæpɪŋ
overlapping
ˈəʊvəˌlæpɪŋ
rapping
ˈræpɪŋ
recapping
ˌriːˈkæpɪŋ
sapping
ˈsæpɪŋ
scrapping
ˈskræpɪŋ
strapping
ˈstræpɪŋ
tapping
ˈtæpɪŋ
unwrapping
ʌnˈræpɪŋ
wiretapping
ˈwaɪəˌtæpɪŋ
wrapping
ˈræpɪŋ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE GAPPING

gap
gap financing
gap year
gap-toothed
gape
gaper
gapes
gapeseed
gapeworm
gaping
gapingly
gapless
gapless playback
gapo
gaposis
gapped
gapped scale
gapper
gappy
gapy

WORDS THAT END LIKE GAPPING

camping
clipping
dipping
dripping
dropping
flipping
home shopping
hopping
popping
propping
ripping
shipping
shopping
skipping
slipping
stepping
stopping
stripping
swapping
tipping
topping

Synonyms and antonyms of gapping in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «gapping» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF GAPPING

Find out the translation of gapping to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of gapping from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «gapping» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

间隙
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

gapping
570 millions of speakers

English

gapping
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

gapping
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

فجوات
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

прореживающа
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

alterações repentinas
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

gapping
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

béant
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Gapping
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

gapping
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

空所化変形
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Gapping
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

gapping
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

gapping
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

गॅपिंग
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

gapping
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

gapping
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

wykrywanie przerw
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

прорежівающа
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

gapping
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αποκλίσεις
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Gapping
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

gapping
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

gapping
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of gapping

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «GAPPING»

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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «GAPPING» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about gapping

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GAPPING»

Discover the use of gapping in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to gapping and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Right Node Raising and Gapping: Interface conditions on ...
This book investigates two elliptical coordinations in German, Right Node Raising and Gapping.
Katharina Hartmann, 2001
2
Negation in Gapping
The first in-depth investigation of gapping and negation shows accepted accounts do not explain differences across languages, and available readings of the negation.
Sophie Repp, 2009
3
Fragments: Studies in Ellipsis and Gapping
This volume contains essays on ellipsis -- the omission of understood words from a sentence -- and the closely related phenomena of gapping.
Shalom Lappin, Elabbas Benmamoun, University of London. School of Oriental and African Studies, 1999
4
Japanese Gapping in Minimalist Syntax
I propose a structure in which the conjunction sosite is the head and takes one TP as complement on its left and another TP as specifier on its right.
Kumiko Kato, 2006
5
Parallelism and Prosody in the Processing of Ellipsis Sentences
First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Katy Carlson, Laurence Horn, 2013
6
Insights in Germanic Linguistics: Classic and contemporary
Background "Coordinate ellipsis" (cf. te Velde 1988) encompasses generally three syntactic phenomena: Gapping, Right-Node Raising, and Verb-Phrase Ellipsis, all terms coined in the early days of generative syntax. In what follows I will ...
Irmengard Rauch, Gerald F. Carr, 1997
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Hebrew Verse Structure
7.3.2 Negative gapping The rule that every verb must bear the burden of its own negation is rarely contravened by gapping and in our corpus there are no examples of negative gapping. It is possible that Dt 32:6cd should be so analyzed.
Michael Patrick O'Connor, 1978
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The Acquisition of Japanese as a Second Language
CHAPTER. 8. Gapping. and. Coordination. in. Second. Language. Acquisition. William O'Grady University ofHawai'i at Manoa 1. Introduction The study of second language acquisition is by now firmly established as an important branch of ...
Kazue Kanno, 1999
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The Interfaces: Deriving and Interpreting Omitted Structures
Variation. at. the. syntax-semantics. interface. Evidence. from. gapping. Luis. Lopez. and. Susanne. Winkler. Some languages move wh/focus-phrases to a clause internal position, which can be identified as Spec,v [Bade (Tuller 1992; Kidwai ...
Kerstin Schwabe, Susanne Winkler, 2003
10
Reflection's on Chomsky's Strong Minimalist Thesis: ...
4.6.2 Coordinate Structure Let us turn to gapping, which may provide us with further testing ground on which to be able to consider the notion of parametric variation across languages more in detail. Departing from the (somewhat standard) ...
鈴木憲夫, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GAPPING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term gapping is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Bourdais crushes field at Milwaukee for second win of year …
11 Hydroxycut KVSH Racing Chevrolet drove an utterly dynamic middle stint of the race after the halfway mark, gapping the field by anywhere ... «NBCSports.com, Jul 15»
2
Tour de France 2015: Top Banana - stage nine | Rouleur | Journal
Go too fast, the pace is uneven and you risk splitting the team or gapping the fifth man. Go too slow and you end up not emptying the collective ... «Rouleur, Jul 15»
3
Anna van der Breggen wins the Giro Rosa as Mara Abbott solos to …
... I thought she's stick with me until the top – until I noticed that she was gapping off a little bit on the switchbacks right around four kilometres to ... «CyclingTips, Jul 15»
4
Europe, China Developments Signal Risk-On; USD Vulnerable …
It rose smartly on Thursday before gapping higher on Friday. Several technical tools point to the significance of the 11400-11600 area. «Investing.com, Jul 15»
5
Detroit Lions: Can Kyle Van Noy Make an Impact? - SideLion Report
With a versatile DT like Ngata who is capable of two-gapping, it's very probable that Van Noy could see the field on passing downs as a fourth ... «Sidelion Report, Jul 15»
6
Economic Calendar 7/10/2015 - Warrior Trading News
Sees 2015 Revenue of $12-$15M. Gapping up 50% with a 1.1M share float. Economic Calendar. 10:00 Wholesale Inventories (MoM) [May] ... «Warrior Trading News, Jul 15»
7
What Will New York Jets Do Without Sheldon Richardson …
In Bowles' time with the Cardinals, his defensive linemen were asked to do a mix of both one-gapping and two-gapping. That helps explain why ... «Bleacher Report, Jul 15»
8
DAX and euro enjoying a positive correlation, but for how long?
Risk very much on so far across equity markets, with the Dax gapping higher from just below the 11,000 handle all the way to the 11,200 after ... «FXStreet, Jul 15»
9
SEPTA splits the 23, adds the 45 to improve service
That was really the premise — the idea to make service more reliable and predictable by eliminating the bunching, gapping and passenger ... «South Philly Review, Jul 15»
10
Why I bought $MBLY Today
Shares of MBLY were gapping up this morning along with the overall market. In the last week we have been trading through extremely volatile ... «Warrior Trading News, Jul 15»

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