Sluicing Crosslinguistic Perspectives Jason Merchant Andrew Simpson by Jason Merchant; Andrew Simpson 9780191642036, 9780191741135, 0191642037, 0191741132 instant download after payment.

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
Abstract: This book of new research by leading experts 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.