Abstract
This article is concerned with the role of syntax in the licensing of sluicing in English. It amends and provides new support for a proposal made by Rudin (2019) in which syntax plays a crucial but circumscribed role: crucial in that antecedents are required; circumscribed in that matching with an antecedent holds only with respect to a proper subpart of the elided clause—its argumental core.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Journal | Linguistic Inquiry |
| Volume | 56 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| Pages (from-to) | 353-373 |
| Number of pages | 21 |
| ISSN | 0024-3892 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Apr 2025 |
Bibliographical note
Published online: July 14 2023.Keywords
- Ellipsis
- Sluicing
- Antecedents
- Matching
- Argument domain
- First phase