In:Wh-In Situ Licensing in Questions and Sluicing
Jun Abe
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 277] 2022
► pp. v–vi
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Published online: 20 July 2022
https://doi.org/10.1075/la.277.toc
https://doi.org/10.1075/la.277.toc
Table of contents
Preface
Chapter 1.Introduction
1.Search and Float approach: Abe (2016c)
2.Roadmap of the book
Chapter 2.Wh-in situ licensing: Search or internal Merge
1.Licensing of in-situ wh-arguments by way of minimal Search
1.1Licensing of in-situ wh-adjuncts
2.Licensing of in-situ wh-phrases by way of covert internal Merge
2.1String-vacuous movement and locality: Abe and Hornstein (2012)
2.2Chinese and Longobardi’s (1987) generalization
3.Mixed cases of wh-in situ licensing
3.1Sinhala
3.2Vietnamese
4.Summary of Chapter 2
Chapter 3.An escape from wh-islands in Japanese
1.An escape from wh-islands
2.The argument-adjunct asymmetry in licensing in-situ wh-phrases
3.Covert internal Merge of in-situ wh-arguments
4.Sluicing in the configuration of an escape from wh-islands
5.Summary of Chapter 3
Appendix:Multiple wh-questions
Chapter 4.Against radical reconstruction in Japanese scrambling
1.Long-distance scrambling as a case of focus movement
2.Licensing of in-situ wh-phrases
3.Wh-island violations
4.Criterial freezing
5.Quantifier scope
6.Summary of Chapter 4
Appendix:More on Takahashi’s (1993)
wh-scrambling cases
Chapter 5.The locality effects of Japanese sluicing in wh-island contexts
1.Japanese sluicing
2.Movement properties of Japanese sluicing in wh-island contexts
2.1Island sensitivity of scrambling
2.2Impossibility of scrambling of possessor NPs
2.3Impossibility of long-distance scrambling of adjuncts
3.Summary of Chapter 5
Chapter 6.The locality effects of the sprouting type of sluicing
1.Scopal parallelism and the locality effects of the sprouting type
1.1The sprouting type of sluicing in Japanese
2.The sprouting type with relative clause remnants
3.The island (in)sensitivity of sluicing in Japanese
4.The island (in)sensitivity of sluicing in English
5.Summary of Chapter 6
Chapter 7.Support for non-constituent deletion in sluicing
1.Preliminary assumptions about in-situ wh-phrase licensing
2.A variety of sluicing in Japanese that is licensed by covert internal Merge
3.Another variety of sluicing that is licensed by covert internal Merge
4.A theoretical implication for the analysis of sluicing
5.Summary of Chapter 7
Appendix:The island sensitivity of partially truncated sluicing
Chapter 8.Conclusions
References
Index
