sulgitud

Sulgitud is a term in speculative linguistics used to describe a syntactic process in which two or more semantically related clauses are merged into a single clause through ellipsis and structural fusion. The resulting sentence preserves core meaning while omitting repeated material such as recurring subjects or auxiliary verbs. The concept is proposed as a model for studying how information structure and discourse cohesion can shape surface syntax.

The term is not tied to a particular language; it functions as a comparative tool. In sulgitud analyses, researchers focus on conditions that favor consolidation, such as shared agents, temporally aligned actions, or overlapping predicates. The approach is deliberately neutral about whether sulgitud occurs in natural languages or only as a theoretical construct, and it is often discussed alongside related processes such as ellipsis, coordination, and clause fusion.

Examples illustrate the idea without committing to a single implementation. For instance: The committee approved the proposal and scheduled the vote becomes The committee approved and scheduled the vote. More complex cases may involve non-identical subjects or embedded relatives, yielding forms where the core action is single but qualified by contextual modifiers.

See also ellipsis, gapping, coordination, concatenation.