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A pseudo-sluicing analysis of reduced embedded questions in Chakhar Mongolian
This paper provides a detailed description of reduced embedded questions in Chakhar Mongolian and proposes to analyze them in terms of so-called...
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(Embedded) short answers to wh-questions in Mandarin Chinese
The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, it investigates the formation of Mandarin embedded short-answer sentences. Given the fact that this type...
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Doubling unconditionals and relative sluicing
Doubling unconditionals are exemplified by the Spanish example Venga quien venga, estaré contento ‘Whoever comes, I’ll be happy’ (lit. ‘Comes who...
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Dutch preposition stranding and ellipsis: ‘Merchant’s Wrinkle’ ironed out
This paper provides an explanation for the unexpected ban on preposition stranding by wh -R-pronouns under sluicing in Dutch. After showing that...
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P-omission in ellipsis in Spanish: Evidence for syntactic identity
In this paper I discuss apparent violations to the P(reposition)-Stranding Generalization (Merchant
2001 ) in Spanish, a language that does not allow...
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On “sluicing” with apparent massive pied-pi**
This paper provides the first detailed description of a type of elliptical wh -question first noted in a footnote in Ross’s seminal paper on sluicing....
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Implicit arguments in English double object constructions
Pesetsky (
1995 ) argued that both objects in the double object construction must be selected arguments of the lexical verb, based on patterns of...
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Last but not least: a comparative perspective on right dislocation in Alasha Mongolian
The primary goal of this paper is to understand the information structure of right dislocation (RD). I report a variation in RD in Asian languages...
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The right node raising analysis of coordinated wh-questions in Japanese
In this paper, I argue for the right node raising (RNR) analysis of coordinated wh -questions in Japanese, according to which verbs or their larger...
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Adjectival sluices in Hungarian
Hungarian adjectival sluices show agreement characteristics of predicative adjectives, even though the correlate of the adjective is in attributive...
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Contrast and verb phrase ellipsis: The case of tautologous conditionals
This paper argues that verb phrase ellipsis requires contrast. The central observation is that ellipsis is ungrammatical in tautologous conditionals;...
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Reduced NP comparatives in Korean and their implications
In this paper, I examine a novel type of comparative construction in Korean, namely, reduced NP comparatives (RNC), and consider its implications. On...
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Argument ellipsis as external merge after transfer
Argument Ellipsis (AE) is a productive process in Hebrew, but some arguments resist ellipsis—precisely those that do not denote individuals. This...
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Against verb-stranding VP-ellipsis in Japanese: reply to Funakoshi (2016)
Japanese has a deletion operation, called argument ellipsis, that targets arguments (Oku in A theory of selection and reconstruction in the...
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Introduction
Entities originally fall into a philosophical category, yet they have linguistic aspects and are discussed by such linguists as Lyons (1977), Asher...
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Alternatives on Demand and Locality: Resolving Discourse-Linked Wh-Phrases in Sluiced Structures
Previous studies have observed a tendency to associate the remnant (e.g., who) of ambiguous sluicing ellipsis with the closest/most local correlate...
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Antecedent-contained argument ellipsis in Japanese
This article aims to provide new and solid evidence for the observation made in the previous literature that antecedent containment needs to be...
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German V2 and Doubly Filled COMP in West Germanic
The paper addresses the issue of Doubly Filled COMP effects in embedded interrogatives in West-Germanic languages, with particular attention paid to...
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The duality of syntax: Unstable structures, labelling and linearisation
This work aims to enhance the theory of Dynamic Asymmetry by including symmetric head-head structures, the inevitable first step of any derivation...
