Substitution and ellipsis of the grammatical base in non-restrictive relative clauses based on English-language popular science economic discourse

This article is devoted to identifying new types of substitution and ellipsis in the English language. The aim of the research is to determine the possibility of the existence of previously undescribed cases of omission and replacement of grammatical elements in English, which are used as a means of linguistic compression. The scientific novelty lies in the fact that, based on the material of English-language economic journalism presented in “The Economist” magazine, grammatical substitution of the subject and its predicate by a present participle has been found in non-restrictive relative clauses, as well as ellipsis of the grammatical base in this syntactic structure. As a result, the substitutes for the predicative core under consideration have been identified and systematized, possible explicates and methods for restoring the grammatical elements under study in continuative relative clauses have been proposed. In addition, the use of freestanding sentential relative clauses in formal style has been found, ellipsis of the grammatical base in sentences of this type has been identified, and an unambiguous explicate has been proposed.