The In-Situ Approach to Sluicing
1st Edition
Published on 23. April 2015
VIII, 168 pages
978-90-272-6863-1 (ISBN)
Description
It has been standardly claimed since Merchant (2001) that island violations can be repaired by simply deleting the categories that induce such violations, as witnessed by sluicing, an ellipsis construction that deletes TP with a remnant wh-phrase. This book aims to argue that such "repair by ellipsis" is simply a myth. Alternatively, the author argues for what is called the in-situ approach to sluicing, originally proposed by Kimura (2007, 2010), according to which the remnant wh-phrase in sluicing stays in situ. This approach immediately explains the island-insensitivity of sluicing, since no overt wh-movement is involved in the derivation of this construction. Hence, it challenges the approach in terms of island repair by ellipsis in that it nullifies the necessity of a repair mechanism. This book makes an important contribution to the field in providing an alternative way of approaching ellipsis phenomena that are claimed to induce "island repair."
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Content
- 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 topicalization
- 2. 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 Japanese
- 1. 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
