Preposition Stranding and Sluicing
- What is Merchant's Preposition Stranding Generalization (PSG)?
- What is at stake?
- What would be a counterexample to PSG?
- How do we distinguish Pseudosluicing from Sluicing?
- Case Studies
Readings
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Almeida, D.A. de A., Yoshida, M., 2007. A problem for the preposition stranding generalization. Linguistic Inquiry 38, 349–362.
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Rodrigues, C., Nevins, A., Vicente, L., 2009. Cleaving the interactions between sluicing and preposition stranding. In: Wetzels, L., Weijer, J. van der (Eds.),
Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2006. John Benjamins, Amsterdam, pp. 175–198.
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Vicente, L., 2008. Syntactic isomorphism and non-isomorphism under ellipsis.
Ms, U. Potsdam. lingBuzz/000776. (22 pages)
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- Sato, Yosuke. 2007. P-stranding generalization and Bahasa Indonesia: a myth?
Snippets 16:17-18.
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Catherine Rose Fortin, Indonesian Sluicing and Verb Phrase Ellipsis, PhD thesis, University of
Michigan, 2007. See the abstract at
http://gradworks.umi.com/32/87/3287506.html. 24 page preview available at http://linguistlist.org/issues/18/18-3446.html.
- Stjepanovic, S. 2008. P-Stranding under Sluicing in a Non-P-Stranding Language?
Linguistic Inquiry. Vol. 39, No. 1, Pages 179-190.
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- Craenenbroeck, Jeroen van. 2010. Invisible Last Resort A note on
clefts as the underlying source for sluicing. Lingua 120: 1714–1726.
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- Szczegielniak, Adam. 2005. All sluiced up, but no alleviation in sight... MS Harvard. (24 pages)
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Further Readings
- Sprouse, Jon. 2005. The Accent Projection Principle: Why the hell not?
U. Penn Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 10.1, 2005.
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Potsdam, Eric. 2007. Malagasy sluicing and its consequences for the identity
requirement on ellipsis. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 25:577–613.
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