How many kinds of sluicing, and why? Single and multiple sluicing in Romanian, English, and Japanese

Hoyt, Frederick; Teodorescu, Alexandra

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“…8 A quick glance at a handful of other languages (Romanian, Russian, Bulgarian, Polish, Croatian, Czech, Slovenian, Serbian, Greek, Albanian, Portuguese, Italian, French, Spanish, Hindi and Bangla) reveals, however, that relative sluicing is typologically rare: none of these languages allow for the kind of relative sluicing that occurs in Hungarian. This holds interestingly also for Romanian, a language in which sluicing after focal items and quantificational expressions is allowed similarly to Hungarian (Hoyt and Teodorescu 2012), but relative sluicing is impossible (Dafina Raţiu p.c.). The unavailability of relative sluicing in Romanian suggests that next to syntactic licensing, yet another licensing requirement is operative in relative sluicing in Hungarian, which operates hand in hand with syntactic licensing.…”

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Relative pronouns as sluicing remnants

Lipták¹

2015

Approaches to Hungarian

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This paper demonstrates on the basis of novel data from Hungarian that contrary to received opinion, sluicing is possible inside relative clauses. It shows that sluicing can affect a relative clause to the exclusion of its relative pronoun in headless or headed relatives that can be considered non-canonical free choice expressions. In sluicing, the relative pronoun that gets stranded in the ellipsis process furthermore bears the major stress associated with the relative clause, a cross-linguistically rare possibility in languages. The findings throw a new light on theories concerned with the syntactic licensing of sluicing and ellipsis in general, pointing at the crucial role of prosody.

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Relative pronouns as sluicing remnants

Lipták¹

2015

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“…Van Craenenbroeck and Lipták (2006), Grebenyova (2006), and Hoyt and Theodorescu (2012) show that sluicing can leave a focus remnant behind in languages where wh-phrases and focused phrases target the same position. In Hungarian, for instance, wh-phrases front to a focus position (Horváth 1986).…”

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Sluicing inside relatives

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Deriving sluicing-like constructions in Isbukun Bunun

2022

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This paper investigates the sluicing-like constructions (SLCs) in Isbukun Bunun, a language which always places its wh-words at the left-peripheral position, and it is argued that genuine sluicing is not available in this language. The evidence in favor of the pseudo-sluicing analysis draws on the behavior of how-phrases, the failure of implicit discourse anaphoric arguments and the absence of sloppy identity reading in Isbukun SLCs. These properties are otherwise hard to accommodate in a movement and deletion approach but rather follow from the view that SLCs in Isbukun Bunun are derived from independent syntactic operations including pro-drop.

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How many kinds of sluicing, and why? Single and multiple sluicing in Romanian, English, and Japanese

Cited by 7 publications

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Relative pronouns as sluicing remnants

Relative pronouns as sluicing remnants

Sluicing inside relatives

Deriving sluicing-like constructions in Isbukun Bunun

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