Sluicing in Cross-Linguistic Perspective

CROSS-LINGUISTIC PERSPECTIVES

By: Jason Merchant (Editor), Andrew Simpson (Editor)

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Paperback | 15 May 2012

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This book considers the phenomenon of sluicing. Sluicing is the term applied to sentences in which the ellipsis of a sequence of words following an embedded wh question word appears to occur, and hearers must somehow recover the content of missing material (as in Someone saw her, but I don't know who.). Elliptical constructions of this type are now known to occur widely in the world's languages in some form or another, and create interesting problems for linguistic analysis, involving complex interactions between syntax, semantics and morphology, as well as prosody. The present volume brings together new research by leading experts who analyse sluicing constructions in English, Dutch, Frisian, Serbo-Croatian, Romanian, Turkish, Malagasy, Chinese, Japanese, Hindi and Bengali. The book 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. In addition to the nine chapters dedicated to specific languages, the volume features an introductory chapter and Haj Ross's original (1969) landmark paper on sluicing.

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The book is of interest to anyone concerned with the empirical facts of sluicing. ... makes an important contribution to the theoretical discussion of two funamental issues that theories of sluicing need to deal with, namely ellipsis and unbounded dependencies. ... The articles in the book are well written: the theoretical questions are stated clearly and in most cases the analyses argued for are well supported by data. Eva Klingvall, Nordic Journal of Linguistics

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