Sluicing, Sprouting and Missing Objects

Taking “sluicing” to be derived by movement + deletion, as represented by Merchant (2001), and “pseudo-sluicing” to be a base-generated structure [pro (+be) + wh] (going by Wei 2004; Adams 2004), this paper reviews arguments for and against the presence of a sluicing construction in Mandarin Chinese...

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Autores principales:	Li Yen-Hui Audrey, Wei Ting-Chi
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Lenguaje:	EN
Publicado:	Sciendo 2017
Materias:	sprouting sluicing pseudo-sluicing topic variable Chinese language and literature PL1001-3208
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:6466bab25fde40f4919079bd56525eb32021-12-02T15:27:26ZSluicing, Sprouting and Missing Objects1017-127410.1515/scl-2017-0004https://doaj.org/article/6466bab25fde40f4919079bd56525eb32017-12-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1515/scl-2017-0004https://doaj.org/toc/1017-1274Taking “sluicing” to be derived by movement + deletion, as represented by Merchant (2001), and “pseudo-sluicing” to be a base-generated structure [pro (+be) + wh] (going by Wei 2004; Adams 2004), this paper reviews arguments for and against the presence of a sluicing construction in Mandarin Chinese. We show that all the tests available in the literature do not argue against the presence of such a sluicing construction, except the test building on the distribution of the copula shi. Unfortunately, the shi test is demonstrated to be uncertain and it cannot be used to argue conclusively that only a base-generation pseudo-sluicing analysis should be adopted. We show that a much clear evidence for an exclusive pseudo-sluicing analysis comes from the behavior of the sprouting construction. Investigation of sprouting also sheds light on the properties of null arguments, topic-variable relation, locality, and subcategorization of verbs in the language.Li Yen-Hui AudreyWei Ting-ChiSciendoarticlesproutingsluicingpseudo-sluicingtopicvariableChinese language and literaturePL1001-3208ENStudies in Chinese Linguistics, Vol 38, Iss 2, Pp 63-92 (2017)
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description	Taking “sluicing” to be derived by movement + deletion, as represented by Merchant (2001), and “pseudo-sluicing” to be a base-generated structure [pro (+be) + wh] (going by Wei 2004; Adams 2004), this paper reviews arguments for and against the presence of a sluicing construction in Mandarin Chinese. We show that all the tests available in the literature do not argue against the presence of such a sluicing construction, except the test building on the distribution of the copula shi. Unfortunately, the shi test is demonstrated to be uncertain and it cannot be used to argue conclusively that only a base-generation pseudo-sluicing analysis should be adopted. We show that a much clear evidence for an exclusive pseudo-sluicing analysis comes from the behavior of the sprouting construction. Investigation of sprouting also sheds light on the properties of null arguments, topic-variable relation, locality, and subcategorization of verbs in the language.
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