Sluicing: Cross-Linguistic Perspectives by Jason Merchant

Sluicing: Cross-Linguistic Perspectives by Jason Merchant

This book of new research by leading experts expands our current understanding of the ways in which languages allow for ellipsis of the sluicing type to occur, and shows how sluicing constructions reveal important information about the general architecture of grammar.

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

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.

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ISBN 13	9780199645770
ISBN 10	0199645779
Title	Sluicing: Cross-Linguistic Perspectives
Author	Jason Merchant
Series	Oxford Studies In Theoretical Linguistics
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Year published	2012-05-03
Number of pages	320
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