Sluicing inside relatives: The case of Gungbe

Lipták, Anikó; Aboh, Enoch O.

doi:10.1075/avt.30.08lip

Article published In: Linguistics in the Netherlands 2013
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[Linguistics in the Netherlands 30] 2013
► pp. 102–118

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Sluicing inside relatives

The case of Gungbe

Anikó Lipták | Leiden University

Enoch O. Aboh | University of Amsterdam

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Published online: 18 November 2013

https://doi.org/10.1075/avt.30.08lip

This paper contributes to current advances in the cross-linguistic variation of syntactic contexts that allow sluicing. We investigate a relatively rare sluicing strategy: TP-ellipsis inside relative clauses. We analyse this phenomenon in Gungbe based on Van Craenenbroeck and Lipták’s (2006) implementation of the [e]-feature characteristic of sluicing.

Keywords: Gungbe, Hungarian, sluicing, ellipsis licensing, relative clauses

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