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Small clause predicates and sluicing [PDF]

, 2022
This Commentaire bears out a prediction of Anand et al.'s (to appear) syntactic identity condition on sluicing. Identity is calculated over argument domains as small as small clauses.
Stockwell, R., Richard Stockwell
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Sluicing, islands and sentence processing

, 2023
Tollan, RebeccaThis dissertation presents research that aims to make new contributions to the study of sluicing (more broadly, ellipsis) and to the study of (extra-)grammatical constraints in language that are attested in sluicing settings.
Palaz, Bilge
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Superlative syntactic amalgams in an Iberian Spanish dialect

Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2020
This article addresses an as yet unnoticed Spanish superlative construction attested in the mid area of Northern Spain. This construction features two striking properties: (i) it contains a relative pronoun which, at first glance, does not seem to ...
Luis Ángel Sáez del Álamo
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Sloppy Identity in Chinese Sluicing-like Constructions [PDF]

, 2019
Concerning the nature of sluicing-like constructions in Chinese, this thesis examines two competing analyses proposed in the literature: the pseudo-sluicing analysis and the PF-deletion (sluicing) analysis.
Gong, Ying
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Sluicing in Wh Embedded Interrogatives and in Free Relatives in European Portuguese

Catalan Journal of Linguistics
Sluicing has been classically taken as a construction that involves embedded wh-questions. However, in the last two decades some studies have shown that it may also occur in some kinds of relative clauses, namely in Free relatives.
Gabriela Matos, Nádia Canceiro
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Conjunction saves multiple sluicing: How *(and) why?

Glossa, 2020
Our goal in this paper is to analyze coordinated wh-sluicing in English and compare its properties to the properties of multiple sluicing, coordinated wh-questions and coordinated clefts.
Barbara Citko, Martina Gracanin-Yuksek
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Le meilleur promoteur dans quel sens ? A closer look at French sluicing (with extra elements)

Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics
This paper addresses French sluicing, focusing on constructions in which a wh-remnant co-occurs with a non-wh-element, collectively referred to as Sweeping (Sluicing With Extra Elements Persist-ing, Temmerman 2019). Building on prior work, it introduces
Tanja Temmerman
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Doubling trouble: some remarks on wh-concord in Swiss German [PDF]

Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2012
The notion “doubling” is widespread in linguistics. But it is mostly used as a pre-theoretical notion that potentially covers an enormous range of phenomena.
Henk van Riemsdijk
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On the Licensing Condition on Sluicing: Evidence from Japanese

Languages
Recent studies on sluicing have been pursuing its licensing condition by examining mismatch phenomena in sluicing. The groundbreaking work was by Rudin, who proposes a syntactic licensing condition on sluicing through investigating mismatch phenomena ...
Shun Ihara, Yuya Noguchi
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You Sluice and hai Modification in Chinese

Studies in Chinese Linguistics, 2017
This paper argues that you ‘have’ sluice is a variant of pseudosluicing, akin to shi ‘be’ sluice in Chinese. You sluice can be analyzed as a base-generated structure [pro you ‘have’ wh-phrase], consisting of a subject pro, a verb you ‘have’, and a wh ...
Wei Ting-Chi
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