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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460575803321

Autore

Abe Jun (Linguist)

Titolo

The In-Situ Approach to Sluicing / / Jun Abe

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam, [Netherlands] ; ; Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania] : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

90-272-6863-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (176 p.)

Collana

Linguistik Aktuell, , 0166-0829 = Linguistics Today

Disciplina

415

Soggetti

Grammar, Comparative and general - Ellipsis

Extraction (Linguistics)

Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax

Semantics

Generative grammar

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The In-Situ Approach to Sluicing; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Preface; Introduction; An outline of the in-situ approach; 1. Kimura (2007, 2010); 2. A refinement of the in-situ approach: Abe and Hornstein (2012); 3. Identification condition on deletion; What differentiates VP ellipsis from sluicing in "island repair"?; 1. The island repair approach: Fox and Lasnik (2003); 1.1 Problems; 1.2 The contrast type of VP ellipsis; 2. Proposal under the in-situ approach; 3. A consequence: Adjunct wh-remnants; 4. A further extension: Fragment answers; Topicalized sluicing

1. Sluicing involving topicalization2. Satisfaction of the Q-feature; 2.1 Matrix wh-questions with non-wh-phrases; 2.2 Topicalized sluicing cases; 2.3 Matrix sluicing cases; Sluicing in Japanese; 1. A review of Hasegawa's (2006) approach; 1.1 Embedded sluicing; 1.2 Matrix sluicing; 2. Reconsideration of Japanese sluicing; 3. Embedded sluicing in Japanese; 3.1 Partially truncated cases of sluicing; 3.2 Cases of the contrast type of sluicing; 3.3 Ambiguously analyzed cases; 4. Licensing conditions on Japanese sluicing; 5. Identification conditions on



Japanese sluicing

Multiple sluicing in Japanese1. No island sensitivity of Japanese multiple sluicing; 2. Locality among wh-remnants in Japanese multiple sluicing; 2.1 Proposal: Oblique movement; 2.2 Locality of oblique movement; 2.3 Is oblique movement overt or covert in Japanese multiple sluicing?; 3. Overt oblique movement vs. remnant VP movement: Takahashi's (1994b) type of "multiple sluicing"; 4. English multiple sluicing; 5. An extension: Multiple fragment answers; Conclusions; References ; Index