Sluicing: Cross-Linguistic Perspectives
Cross-Linguistic Perspectives
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- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
14 May 2012
Summary
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 interestingproblems for linguistic analysis, involving complex…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780199645770 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0199645779 |
| Author: | Jason Merchant, Andrew Simpson |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 14 May 2012 |
| Weight: | 498g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 158mm x 17mm |
| Series: | Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics |
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Critics Review
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
About The Author
Jason Merchant
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 atYale, 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 theUniversity 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 EastAsian 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 LinguisticsSociety.
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