This article presents novel data from ellipsis in Nupe, a Benue-Congo language of Nigeria,
and explores its theoretical implications. Three claims are made. First, sluicing in Nupe …

Sluicing is a form of clausal ellipsis first discussed in Ross 1969. Sluices have the syntactic
distribution (Ross 1969, Levin 1982, Merchant 2001 and interpretation (Ross 1969 …

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

Across many languages, multiple sluicing obeys a clausemate constraint. This can be
understood on the empirically well-supported assumption that covert phrasal wh-movement …

This paper reports the results of three acceptability judgment experiments on Saudi Arabic
elliptical questions (sluicing) with prepositional phrases. We show that in standard cases of …

This thesis investigates the representation and processing of sluicing, a type of ellipsis
where an interrogative CP is reduced to its initial wh-element (the remnant), eg Mary danced …

In this article, we take a detailed look at clausal ellipsis in Icelandic, a hitherto understudied
phenomenon. We focus on case-matching and case-mismatching facts in fragment …

Verb-stranding ellipsis, when a verb is stranded outside of the ellipsis site in which it
originated, has been identified in a number of languages (Irish, McCloskey 1991; Hebrew …

This thesis reports on the results of eight acceptability judgment experiments on Saudi
Arabic elliptical questions (sluicing). These results are presented in two sections. The first …

Abstract Previous literature on Hindi-Urdu sluicing has noted strong Case-matching effects.
In this paper, I show that grammatical Case-mismatching is also found in Urdu sluicing. The …