Cleaving the Interactions Between Sluicing and Preposition Stranding

Cleaving the Interactions Between Sluicing and Preposition Stranding

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Cleaving the Interactions Between Sluicing and Preposition Stranding

dc.contributor.author	Rodrigues, Cilene
dc.contributor.author	Nevins, Andrew Ira
dc.contributor.author	Vicente, Luis
dc.date.accessioned	2010-03-23T14:33:48Z
dc.date.issued	2009
dc.identifier.citation	Rodrigues, Cilene, Andrew Nevins, and Luis Vicente. 2009. Cleaving the interactions between sluicing and preposition stranding. In Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2006: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’, Amsterdam, 7–9 December 2006, ed. D. Torck and W. L. Wetzels, 175-198. Amsterdam; Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing.	en_US
dc.identifier.isbn	978-90-272-4819-0	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:3743805
dc.description.abstract	Merchant (2001) proposes that preposition stranding under sluicing is allowed only in those languages that also allow P-stranding in regular wh- questions. Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese (BP) seem to falsify this generalization, as both are non-Pstranding languages that allow P-stranding under sluicing. Our claim is that, despite initial appearances, Spanish and BP do not constitute counterexamples to Merchant’s generalization. We propose that there are two sources of sluicing in Romance: wh-movement plus IP-deletion (Merchant 2001), and clefting plus IP deletion (Merchant 1998), the latter being the underlying source for P-stranding sluicing. The apparent P-stranding effect follows from the fact that, as opposed to regular interrogatives, clefts in BP and Spanish do not involve P-stranding at all. We reinforce this conclusion by showing that, in those cases where a cleft base is independently banned, P-stranding under sluicing becomes impossible too.	en_US
dc.description.sponsorship	Linguistics	en_US
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.publisher	John Benjamins Publishing	en_US
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dc.relation.hasversion	http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~nevins/rodrigues-etal.pdf	en_US
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dc.title	Cleaving the Interactions Between Sluicing and Preposition Stranding	en_US
dc.type	Monograph or Book	en_US
dc.description.version	Version of Record	en_US
dash.depositing.author	Nevins, Andrew Ira
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