Adrienne Shapiro on Facebook on the 14th, reporting on a day trip from Seattle with Kit Transue: Cape Disappointment did not [understood: disappoint]. An instance of the anaphoric construction VPE (Verb Phrase Ellipsis) in which the antecedent for the ellipted material is not an actual expression in the preceding text, but instead is merely evoked … Continue reading Playful anaphoric islanding