Wh-In Situ Licensing in Questions and Sluicing
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This book addresses the question of how in-situ wh-phrases are licensed from a minimalist perspective in which the basic assumptions about narrow syntax need to be reduced to the bare minimum. I propose that in-situ wh-phrases are licensed by way of either minimal Search or covert internal Merge: while in-situ wh-adjuncts are uniformly licensed by covert internal Merge, in-situ wh-arguments have a choice between the two options, depending on whether the licensing C head is overtly manifested. I also discuss sluicing, an ellipsis construction with a remnant wh-phrase, and address the question of how the remnant wh-phrase is licensed. I support the in-situ approach to sluicing, advocated in my previous book The In-Situ Approach to Sluicing (John Benjamins), according to which the remnant wh-phrase stays in situ. I argue against the more standard analysis, endorsing the main claim of this previous book that island repair by ellipsis is a myth.
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 277] Expected September 2022. viii, 201 pp. + index
Publishing status: In production
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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Preface | pp. vii–viii
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Chapter 1. Introduction | pp. 1–12
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Chapter 2. Wh-in situ licensing: Search or internal Merge | pp. 13–42
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Chapter 3. An escape from wh-islands in Japanese | pp. 43–72
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Chapter 4. Against radical reconstruction in Japanese scrambling | pp. 73–110
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Chapter 5. The locality effects of Japanese sluicing in wh-island contexts | pp. 111–128
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Chapter 6. The locality effects of the sprouting type of sluicing | pp. 129–156
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Chapter 7. Support for non-constituent deletion in sluicing | pp. 157–188
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Chapter 8. Conclusions | pp. 189–194
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References
Subjects & Metadata
BIC Subject: CFK – Grammar, syntax
BISAC Subject: LAN009060 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax