Sluicing, Idioms, and Island Repair
- 1 October 2013
- journal article
- Published by MIT Press in Linguistic Inquiry
- Vol. 44 (4), 651-668
- https://doi.org/10.1162/ling_a_00142
Abstract
In this article, we investigate idiom reconstruction in the context of sluicing constructions. We demonstrate that some idioms in English are not compatible with resumptive pronouns. On the basis of this observation, we argue that sluicing involves wh-gap dependencies rather than wh-resumptive pronoun dependencies, and that the island amelioration effect of sluicing does not result primarily from the island amelioration effect of resumptive pronouns.This publication has 23 references indexed in Scilit:
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