L225A Sluicing - Introduction
- What is the right identity condition for Sluicing?
- S-Structure identity
- LF-Structure identity
- Semantic identity
- Some kind of semantic identity, modulo inference
- Is Sluicing a transformation?
- How does Sluicing interact with the rest of grammar, e.g. Wh-movement?
- Sluicing and island constraints
Readings
- Runner, Jeff. 2002.
Review of Syntax: Merchant (2001) Syntax of Silence. LinguistList. Available at
http://linguistlist.org/issues/13/13-1210.html
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Merchant, Jason. 2006. Sluicing. In Martin Everaert and Henk van Riemsdijk (eds.), The Syntax Companion, 269-289. Blackwell: London.
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Lasnik, H. 2007. On Ellipsis: The PF Approach to Missing Constituents. University of Maryland Working Papers in Linguistics, Vol. 15, pp. 146-157.
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Further Readings
- Sag, Ivan A., and Jorge Hankamer. 1984. Toward a Theory of
Anaphoric Processing. Linguistics and Philosophy 7: 325--345.
[Reprinted in Asa Kasher, ed. (1998), Pragmatics -- Critical
Concepts, Volume III. London and New York:
Routledge. Pp. 118--138.]
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