Wh-in situ licensing in questions and sluicing

Author(s)

• 阿部, 潤 アベ, ジュン

Bibliographic Information

Wh-in situ licensing in questions and sluicing

Jun Abe

（Linguistik aktuell, v. 277）

John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2022

• : hb

Note

Summary: "This book addresses the question of how in-situ wh-phrases are licensed from a minimalist perspective in which the basic assumptions about narrow syntax need to be reduced to the bare minimum. I propose that in-situ wh-phrases are licensed by way of either minimal Search or covert internal Merge: while in-situ wh-adjuncts are uniformly licensed by covert internal Merge, in-situ wh-arguments have a choice between the two options, depending on whether the licensing C head is overtly manifested. I also discuss sluicing, an ellipsis construction with a remnant wh-phrase, and address the question of how the remnant wh-phrase is licensed. I support the in-situ approach to sluicing, advocated in my previous book The In-Situ Approach to Sluicing (John Benjamins), according to which the remnant wh-phrase stays in situ. I argue against the more standard analysis, endorsing the main claim of this previous book that island repair by ellipsis is a myth"--Provided by publisher

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This book addresses the question of how in-situ wh-phrases are licensed from a minimalist perspective in which the basic assumptions about narrow syntax need to be reduced to the bare minimum. I propose that in-situ wh-phrases are licensed by way of either minimal Search or covert internal Merge: while in-situ wh-adjuncts are uniformly licensed by covert internal Merge, in-situ wh-arguments have a choice between the two options, depending on whether the licensing C head is overtly manifested. I also discuss sluicing, an ellipsis construction with a remnant wh-phrase, and address the question of how the remnant wh-phrase is licensed. I support the in-situ approach to sluicing, advocated in my previous book The In-Situ Approach to Sluicing (John Benjamins), according to which the remnant wh-phrase stays in situ. I argue against the more standard analysis, endorsing the main claim of this previous book that island repair by ellipsis is a myth.

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BC16579496
• ISBN:
  • 9789027211408
• LCCN: 2022019402
• Country Code: ne
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Amsterdam
• Pages/Volumes: viii, 204 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : P299.I57
  • DC23 : 415
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Grammar, Comparative and general -- Interrogative
  • LCSH : Grammar, Comparative and general -- Ellipsis
  • LCSH : Extraction (Linguistics)
  • LCSH : Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00524923