This paper investigates the interaction between head movement of the verb and ellipsis of
vP (verb-stranding ellipsis, VSE) in Uzbek—an understudied Turkic language of Central …

Japanese has a deletion operation, called argument ellipsis, that targets arguments (Oku in
A theory of selection and reconstruction in the minimalist program, 1998). The operation …

This paper provides a detailed description of reduced embedded questions in Chakhar
Mongolian and proposes to analyze them in terms of so-called pseudo-sluicing. It has been …

INVESTIGATIONS ON SALVATION AND NON-SALVATION BY DELETION Gesoel Mendes,
Doctor of Philosophy, 2020 Professor Norbert H Page 1 ABSTRACT Title of dissertation …

This study argues against the verb-raising analysis of Japanese Non-Constituent
Coordination (NCC), and consequently supports an alternative analysis with no recourse to …

In Catalan,/n/deletes in word-final position when it is preceded by a stressed vowel. In this
paper, we present an analysis that combines the representations of Strict CV and the …

Japanese is a strictly head-final language. For this reason, it has been hotly debated
whether syntactic head movement exists in the language. While scholars such as Otani & …

Whether syntactic head movement exists in Japanese has been hotly debated because of
the strictly head‐final character of the language. This paper addresses this issue, focusing …

Recent research suggests that verb echo answers (VEAs) to a polar question in Japanese
are derived by sluicing: the V head moves to C, and the complement of C, TP, undergoes …

This paper tackles the issue of whether syntactic head movement exists in Japanese. Sato &
Hayashi (2018) and Sato & Maeda (2021) propose that Verb‐Echo Answers (VEAs), an …