(Read free ebook) The Syntax of Silence: Sluicing, Islands, and the Theory of Ellipsis (Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics)
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| #3777882 in Books | Jason Merchant | 2001-10-25 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.90 x.50 x5.90l,1.04 | File Name: 0199243727 | 280 pages | The Syntax of Silence Sluicing Islands and the Theory of Ellipsis
||7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.| How to get the book for less|By Jason Merchant|Although the original paperback print run of this book has sold out, the book is still available in paperback directly from the publisher, Oxford University Press, through their "print on demand" ordering, for $39, I think. No need to pay for the hardcover library edition.|1 of 14 people found the following review helpful.| |`This is the most comprehensive study of Sluicing to date, and clears up one of its central mysteries: how do sluices evade standard island effects. Merchant brings together extensive comparative work with a careful examination of the syntax-semantics interfa
Two of the best studied and most intriguing areas in syntax and semantics are ellipsis and wh-movement, and although these areas have generated immense interest individually, their intersection - in elliptical wh-questions known as sluicing - has remained largely neglected. This book fills that gap. It does so on the basis of the most sustained empirical investigation of sluicing ever conducted, drawing on novel data from thirty languages that give rise to a number of s...
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