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

Sluicing is an interesting phenomenon, especially because it has been claimed to be island-
insensitive despite the fact that it appears to involve overt wh-movement, with deletion …

Stripping and Sluicing in Japanese and Some Implications Page 1 (1999) To appear in WCCFL
18. Stripping and Sluicing in Japanese and Some Implications TERUHIKO FUKAYA AND …

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 dissertation is a generative-grammatical study of the constructions called sluicing and
stripping in Japanese. It argues for the thesis, advocated by Hoji & Li (1994) and Fukaya & …

We take up three Negative Sensitive Items (NSIs) in Japanese, Wh-MO plain negative
indefinites, exceptive XP-sika, and certain minimizing indefinites, such as rokuna N ('any …

This dissertation investigates the syntax and semantics of two focus particles in Korean with
special reference to their scopal behavior. The two particles under consideration are the …

The focus particle man 'only'in Korean shows different scopal behavior depending upon its
syntactic environment. This non-uniform scope pattern cannot be accounted for if the particle …

This dissertation presents, upon close examination of the nominal structure and the relative
clause in Japanese, that (b) the applicability of semantic operations can vary across …

Since Noam Chomsky published his book Lectures on Government and Binding in 1981, the
two notions, government and binding, had been playing a central role in developing theories …