WebComplementizers in English and Spanish contrast in two relevant ways. First, as previously mentioned, only Spanish allows extraction of a subject wh-phrase over an overt complementizer (4a)2, while English has the that-trace effect: subjects cannot be extracted over that (5c) but can be extracted when the complementizer is null (5d). Webvariation in how speakers judge sluicing constructions involving islands in Hindi (p. 215). As pointed out by these authors, careful control of the data is necessary. …
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WebDeriving Apparent Sluicing in Hindi-Urdu and Uzbek Vera Gribanova Emily Manetta Wh-in-situ languages have a special role to play in investigating the relation between the wh-syntax of a language and the availability of sluicing-like constructions (SLCs). Van Craenenbroeck and Lipta´k (2013) propose that whether a language exhibits genuine sluicing Websluicing blocks VP-ellipsis – to diagnose the distribution of rebinding configurations, and considering the wider data set he concludes that traces of all kinds of movement must leave variables which count for the calculation of parallelism. The key data comes from wh-adverbial questions. thesaurus word definitions
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Webmatrix questions with overt complementizers is not free. In these contexts, the highest Wh-phrase has to appear first in the linear order, otherwise the sentence is bad, ... in multiple … WebSluicing is characterized by deletion of a whole clause except a wh ... language has an overt focus head, it should not be included in a sluice and should ... absence of “low” complementizers that follow wh in non-sluiced interrogatives, in e.g., Irish, Brazilian Portuguese, many North Italian dialects and Germanic varieties means ... Webdo not licensing Sluicing despite truth-conditional equivalence to overt indefinites. In addition to these facts, the paper examines novel data which show that Sluicing is not licensed by even overt indefinites inside of appositive relative clauses, arguing that these facts (and related facts regarding VP-Ellipsis) follow from the account thesaurus word for incentive