Abstract:
This paper investigates the phenomenon of phrasal cluster ellipsis in EkeGusii, a Bantu language spoken in western
Kenya. We analyze the syntactic structures that permit the omission of entire phrasal clusters, examine the
contextual and pragmatic factors involved, and propose a theoretical model to account for these ellipses. Our
findings contribute to the understanding of ellipsis phenomena in Bantu languages and offer insights for
computational language processing.
