Fragmentary utterances such as 'short'answers and subsentential XPs without linguistic
antecedents are proposed to have fully sentential syntactic structures, subject to ellipsis …

Although the traditional term “function words” or Chomsky's (1970) notion of “non-lexical
categories” has much in common with the contemporary notion of “functional categories”, it …

Japanese has two types of focus constructions, Cleft and the 'No da'in-situ focus construction
(cf., Koizumi 1995, Kuroda 1992, 1999, Matsuda 1997 for the former and Kuno 1973 for the …

In this article, we propose that three types of focus constructions in Japanese—clefts, in‐situ
focus, and sluicing/stripping—share the same underlying structure and are derived by …

This paper deals with an elliptical construction in Hungarian that to our knowledge has not
received any attention in the theoretical literature so far. It involves the deletion of a relative …

This thesis is a cross-linguistic investigation into the nature of null arguments in radical pro-
drop languages where null arguments are claimed to be derivable via the process called …

This paper presents new evidence in favour of Merchant's (2004, 2008) PF-theory of islands,
which states that island-sensitivity is due to the presence of PF-uninterpretable traces at PF …

Linguistic material cannot be freely deleted in a sentence; rather, elided material must be
recoverable via some kind of parallelism with an antecedent. This paper uses sluicing (IP …

272 Chapter 60 Merchant: Sluicing c. Beth was there, but you'll never guess who else was
there. d. Jack called, but I don't know {when/how/why} he called. e. Sally's out hunting …

This paper aims to illustrate how we might proceed to attain repeatability and falsifiability in
generative grammar, on the basis of discussion of concrete empirical materials in Japanese …