Sluicing phenomena

Autor/innen

  • Kerstin Schwabe

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21248/zaspil.24.2001.130

Abstract

The paper shows that in various sluicing types, the wh-phrase in the sluicing sentence as well as its relatum in the antecedent clause must be F-marked, and it explains this observation with Schwarzschild's (1999) and Merchant's (1999) focus theory. According to the semantics of the wh-phrase, it will argue that the relatum of the wh-phrase is an indefinite expression that must allow a specific interpretation. Following Heusinger (1997, 2000), specificity will be defined as an anchoring relation between the discourse referent introduced by the indefinite expression and a discourse given item. Because specific indefinite expressions are always novel, contexts like the scope of definite DPs, the scope of thematic matrix predicates, and the scope of downward-monotonic quantifiers which all exhibit non-novel indefinites do not allow sluicing.

 

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2001

Zitationsvorschlag

Schwabe, Kerstin. 2001. „Sluicing Phenomena“. ZAS Papers in Linguistics 24 (Januar):145-66. https://doi.org/10.21248/zaspil.24.2001.130.