The Syntax of Silence: Sluicing, Islands, and the Theory of Ellipsis: Sluicing, Islands and Identity in Ellipsis (Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics)

by JasonMerchant (Author)

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  2001

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  This work focuses on the form of ellipsis known as sluicing, a feature of interrogative clauses, such as in Sally's out hunting - guess what! ; and Someone called, but I can't tell you who . The phenomenon is studied across 24 languages to try to explain it in linguistic and behavioural terms.