This paper classifies elliptic utterances in two groups: non-idiomatic and idiomatic.
本文把省略语分为非惯用省略语和惯用省略语两种。
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Non-idiomatic elliptic utterances refer to the non-schema-based ones which occur in a certain context spontaneously and exist for only a short period of time.
非惯用省略语是指在一定语境中出现的，一次性的、短暂的、非模式化的省略语；
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One enduring belief about the arbitrariness of English idioms is that they are non componential because their idiomatic meanings are not deducible from the meanings of their individual parts.