Sluicing and stripping in Japanese and some implications

要旨

This dissertation is a generative-grammatical study of the constructions called sluicing and stripping in Japanese. It argues for the thesis, advocated by Hoji & Li (1994) and Fukaya & Hoji (1999), that sluicing and stripping are manifestations of the same syntactic phenomenon in Japanese, i.e., that their derivations involve the same set of formal operations. In order to establish the thesis, this dissertation investigates significantly more involved empirical materials pertaining to island sensitivity and the availability of the sloppy identity reading than previous studies of these constructions.

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