Sluicing Cannot Apply In-Situ in Japanese

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ID22159596
AuthorsKen Hiraiwa (0000-0002-3955-1390, Meiji Gakuin University, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume6
Issue1
Pages317
Publication date2021-03-20
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueProceedings of the Linguistic Society of America (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2473-8689 • E-ISSN: 2473-8689
PublisherLinguistic Society of America (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.3765/plsa.v6i1.4951
OpenAlexW3136959797
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited12

Ross (1969) proposed that sluicing in English is derived by wh- movement and deletion. The wh-movement analysis, however, is not straight- forward in wh-in-situ languages like Japanese. A number of studies argued that sluicing in Japanese is based on wh-cleft structure with much empirical evidence. More recently, however, Kimura (2010) and Abe (2015) have proposed an in-situ analysis of sluicing in Japanese, which deletes everything but a wh-phrase (and the Q-complementizer) in situ, without movement. In this paper, building on immobile elements, I will provide decisive evidence against the in-situ deletion analysis of sluicing and for the wh-cleft analysis of sluicing

Complementizer · Geography · In situ · Linguistics · Meteorology · Natural language processing · Phrase · Physics · Syntax · Computer Science · History · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

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