Summary: The implication of our results is that the term "sluicing" as it has been used does not describe a natural class of syntactic structures. Instead, it seems to act as a general label for ellipsis of sub-constituents of an embedded question. In other words, sluicing describes a correlation between certain ellipsis configurations, the forms of which vary in different languages...and a semantic interpretation which is, as far as we can tell, consistent across languages (as suggested by the glosses given in the examples above). Given sluicing as a general category, we distinguish between English sluicing, Romanian sluicing, and Japanese sluicing. Sluicing therefore implies nothing about the syntactic analysis for the data. Rather, we describe analyses in terms of different kinds of ellipsis, such as IP-ellipsis or CP-ellipsis.

Bibliographic Info:

Hoyt & Teodorescu (2012). "How Many Kinds of Sluicing and Why? Single and Multiple Sluicing in Romanian, English, and Japanese." In Sluicing: Cross-Linguistic Perspectives. edited by Jason Merchant and Andrew Simpson. Oxford University Press. 83-103.

Bibtex: @INCOLLECTION{HoytAnd:2012, author = {Frederick Hoyt and Alexandra Teodorescu}, title = {How Many Kinds of Sluicing, and Why? Single and Multiple Sluicing in Romanian, English, and Japanese}, booktitle = {Sluicing: Cross-Linguistic Perspectives}, publisher = {Oxford University Press}, year = {2012}, editor = {Andrew Simpson and Jason Merchant}, pages = {83-103}, }

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Bhattacharya, T. and Simpson, A. (2012), "Sluicing in Indo-Aryan: An Investigation of Bangla and Hindi," in J. Merchant & A. Simpson, eds, Sluicing: Cross-Linguistic Perspectives, Oxford University Press, Chapter 9, pp. 183-218. [Citations on pp. 188, 197, 202]

Paul, I. and Potsdam, E. (2012), "Sluicing without WH-Movement in Malagasy," in J. Merchant and A. Simpson, eds, Sluicing: Cross-Linguistic Perspectives, Oxford University Press, pp. 164-182. [Citation on p. 167]