Ebook: Sluicing : cross-linguistic perspectives
Author: Jason Merchant, Andrew Simpson
- Series: Oxford studies in theoretical linguistics 38., Oxford linguistics
- Year: 2012
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- City: Oxford
- Language: English
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This volume expands our current understanding of the ways in which languages allow for ellipsis of the sluicing type to occur, and shows how sluicing constructions reveal important information about the general architecture of grammar.
Content: 1. Introduction ; 2. Guess Who? ; 3. How do You Sluice When There is More Than One CP? ; 4. Two Cases of Violation Repair Under Sluicing ; 5. How Many Kinds of Sluicing and Why? Single and Multiple Sluicing in Romanian, English, and Japanese ; 6. Case Morphology and Island Repair ; 7. Island Insensitivity in Japanese and Some Implications ; 8. Sluicing Without wh-movement in Malagasy ; 9. Sluicing in Indo-Aryan: An investigation of Bangla and Hindi ; 10. Sluicing in Mandarin Chinese: An instance of pseudo-sluicing ; 11. Sluicing in Turkish
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