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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.
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Preposition stranding under sluicing: Evidence from Hijazi Arabic
Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2021 Based on data from numerous languages, such as English, Frisian, and Danish, Merchant (2001) proposes the preposition stranding generalization (PSG), which states that only languages that allow preposition stranding under wh-movement also allow ...
Nouf Alaowffi, Bader Alharbi
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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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Glossa, 2023 Exclamative sluices (What a goal!, How odd!) have not been part of the debate on the nature of ellipsis constructions. As we show here their profile is quite different from the usual suspects, VP ellipsis and interrogative sluicing – they occur much more
Jonathan Ginzburg, Jong-Bok Kim
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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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Sluicing cannot apply in-situ in Japanese
, 2021 Ross (1969) proposed that sluicing in English is derived by wh- movement and deletion. The wh-movement analysis, however, is not straight- forward in wh-in-situ languages like Japanese.
Hiraiwa, Ken
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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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Sluicing in Wh Embedded Interrogatives and in Free Relatives in European Portuguese
Catalan Journal of LinguisticsSluicing 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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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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On the Licensing Condition on Sluicing: Evidence from Japanese
LanguagesRecent 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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