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The Syntax of Silence
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The Syntax of Silence

Sluicing, Islands, and the Theory of Ellipsis
BookHardcover
Ranking79187inSprachen
CHF193.00

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The first book-length treatment of the most cross-linguistically widespread form of ellipsis: elliptical wh-questions, known as sluices. Drawing on data from thirty languages, Merchant shows that sluicing structures are crucial to answering the fundamental questions about the nature of ellipsis and its resolution. The author also carefully documents a number of original generalizations concerning form-identity effects and the complementizer system.
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ISBN/GTIN978-0-19-924373-0
Product TypeBook
BindingHardcover
Publication countryUnited Kingdom
Publishing date16/08/2001
SeriesOxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics
Series no.01
Pages280 pages
LanguageEnglish
SizeWidth 162 mm, Height 242 mm, Thickness 20 mm
Weight556 g
Illustrations17 figures
Article no.42572204
CatalogsBuchzentrum
Data source no.23138043
Product groupSprachen
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Jason Merchant is Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Chicago, and is the author of many articles on ellipsis and sluicing in particular. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and has been a Mellon postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern University and an NWO postdoctoral fellow at the University of Groningen.