Overview

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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Author:   Jason Merchant (, Department of Linguistics, University of Chicago) ,  Andrew Simpson (, East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Southern California)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Volume:   38
Dimensions:   Width: 16.40cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 24.10cm
Weight:   0.644kg
ISBN:  

9780199645763

ISBN 10:   0199645760
Pages:   306
Publication Date:   03 May 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1: Jason Merchant and Andrew Simpson: Introduction 2: John R. Ross: Guess Who? 3: Jeroen van Craenenbroeck: How do You Sluice When There is More Than One CP? 4: Sandra Stjepanovic: Two Cases of Violation Repair Under Sluicing 5: Frederick Hoyt and Alexandra Teodorescu: How Many Kinds of Sluicing and Why? Single and Multiple Sluicing in Romanian, English, and Japanese 6: Masanori Nakamura: Case Morphology and Island Repair 7: Teruhiko Fukaya: Island Insensitivity in Japanese and Some Implications 8: Ileana Paul and Eric Potsdam: Sluicing Without wh-movement in Malagasy 9: Tanmoy Bhattacharya and Andrew Simpson: Sluicing in Indo-Aryan: An investigation of Bangla and Hindi 10: Perng Wang Adams and Satoshi Tomioka: Sluicing in Mandarin Chinese: An instance of pseudo-sluicing 11: Atakan Ince: Sluicing in Turkish

Reviews

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

Author Information

Jason Merchant is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Chicago. He has written extensively on ellipsis, including on sluicing, swiping, fragment answers, verb phrase ellipsis, antecedent-contained ellipsis, comparative ellipsis, and nominal ellipsis. His other interests are in case, split ergativity, locality, islands, agreement, and topics in the syntax-semantics interface. His primary language areas are in Germanic, Greek, and Romance. He studied at Yale, Tübingen, Utrecht, and the University of California at Santa Cruz, where he received his Ph.D. in 1999. Andrew Simpson is Professor of Linguistics and East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Southern California. His research is focused on the comparative syntax of East, Southeast and South Asian languages, in particular Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese, Burmese, Bangla and Hindi. He is the author of Wh-Movement and the Theory of Feature Checking (John Benjamins), the editor of Language and National Identity in Asia and Language and National Identity in Africa (Oxford University Press), and joint general editor of the Journal of East Asian Linguistics. He has published articles in Linguistic Inquiry, Language, Lingua, the Journal of East Asian Linguistics, Studies in Language, Language and Linguistics, and the Journal of the South East Asian Linguistics Society.

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