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Wh-In Situ Licensing in Questions and Sluicing
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English
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2022
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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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Table of contents
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Preface
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Chapter 1. Introduction
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Chapter 2. Wh -in situ licensing
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Chapter 3. An escape from wh -islands in Japanese
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Chapter 4. Against radical reconstruction in Japanese scrambling
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Chapter 5. The locality effects of Japanese sluicing in wh -island contexts
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Chapter 6. The locality effects of the sprouting type of sluicing
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Chapter 7. Support for non-constituent deletion in sluicing
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Chapter 8. Conclusions
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References
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Index
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