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Hardcover Wh-In Situ Licensing in Questions and Sluicing (Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today) Book

ISBN: 902721140X

ISBN13: 9789027211408

Wh-In Situ Licensing in Questions and Sluicing (Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today)

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.

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