The sentence is not ‘elliptical’ because it

omit
leaves out

something

that
which

think
mean

when we utter it, but because it is

abbreviated,
shortened

in as compar[is|ed]onch with a particular standard of our grammar. – One might here make the obje[t|c]tion: “You admit that the

abbreviated
shortened

and the

unabbreviated
unshortened

sentence have the same meaning. – Well, [W|w]hat meaning have they then? ? Is Isn't there not

an
one verbal

ex[r|p]ression for this meaning?” – But doesn't

their
the

identical meaning of the sentences consist in their having the same

use
application

? (In Russian they say “stone red” inste[da|ad] of “the stone is red”;

don't they get the full meaning, as they leave out the copula
is the copula left out of the meaning for them

? or do they think

it
the copula

to themselvesˇ without pronouncing it? –)