Sluicing: Cross-Linguistic Perspectives

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 at Yale, 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 the University 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 East Asian 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 Linguistics Society.

• 1. Introduction ; 2. Guess Who? ; 3. How do You Sluice When There is More Than One CP? ; 4. Two Cases of Violation Repair Under Sluicing ; 5. How Many Kinds of Sluicing and Why? Single and Multiple Sluicing in Romanian, English, and Japanese ; 6. Case Morphology and Island Repair ; 7. Island Insensitivity in Japanese and Some Implications ; 8. Sluicing Without wh-movement in Malagasy ; 9. Sluicing in Indo-Aryan: An investigation of Bangla and Hindi ; 10. Sluicing in Mandarin Chinese: An instance of pseudo-sluicing ; 11. Sluicing in Turkish

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