Lexico-syntactic means of compensation of the elliptical simple sentences in the tragedies of Sophocles
The present paper analyzes the ways of compensation in elliptical simple sentences of various structures in the tragedies ‘Oedipus the King’, ‘Antigone’ and ‘Oedipus at Colonus’. The expanded elliptical sentences are reconstructed and the inventory of compensatory syntactic means is determined on the grounds of the corresponding syntactic links. Redistribution of communicative information between elliptical and compensatory items in situational speech is analyzed. As a result of ellipsis, tautology is avoided, the most important details, which demonstrate the speaker’s attitude towards the message are stressed, and thus, the emphatic effect is achieved.