ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a comprehensive account of the text linguistic mechanism of ellipsis in Qur'anic discourse. It illustrates the several types of ellipsis and their pragmatic functions. Among the major ellipsis notions investigated are cataphoric and anaphoric ellipsis, the several pragmatic functions of ellipsis, the major types of ellipsis nominal ellipsis and verbal ellipsis, clausal ellipsis, the relationship between ellipsis and micro/macro intertextuality, ellipsis and presupposition, and contextual ellipsis. The sentences between brackets represent non-elliptical sentences and are non-Qur'anic. Ellipsis is a cohesive device which has a lexico-grammatical relation in which a word or a phrase is specified through the use of a grammatical signal, indicating that this word or phrase is to be recovered from what has gone before, to be retrieved from the preceding text. Ellipsis also takes place when the ellipted element designates the pragmatic function of warning.
