Jun Abe

List of John Benjamins publications in which Jun Abe is involved.

Titles

Wh-In Situ Licensing in Questions and Sluicing

Jun Abe

This book addresses the question of how in-situ wh-phrases are licensed from a minimalist perspective in which the basic assumptions about narrow syntax need to be reduced to the bare minimum. I propose that in-situ wh-phrases are licensed by way of either minimal Search or covert internal Merge:… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 277] 2022. viii, 204 pp.

The In-Situ Approach to Sluicing

Jun Abe

It has been standardly claimed since Merchant (2001) that island violations can be repaired by simply deleting the categories that induce such violations, as witnessed by sluicing, an ellipsis construction that deletes TP with a remnant wh-phrase. This book aims to argue that such “repair by… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 222] 2015. viii, 168 pp.