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On Multiple Sluicing in Japanese
Brian Agbayani and Toru Ishii
11-20 (complete paper or proceedings contents)

Abstract

This paper proposes a prosodic movement analysis of Multiple Sluicing. It is shown that while Single Sluicing is derived by syntactic movement, Multiple Sluicing involves prosodic movement, i.e., movement in the phonological component. In Multiple Sluicing, targeted material that cannot form a single syntactic constituent is passed on to the phonology and packed into a single prosodic constituent -- a Major Phrase -- which undergoes rightward Prosodic Cleft followed by ellipsis of the intonational phrase corresponding to the presuppositional CP. The proposed analysis captures the lack of sensitivity to syntactic constraints and absence of LF interpretive effects with Multiple Sluicing.

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Proceedings of the 38th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics
edited by Rachel Soo, Una Y. Chow, and Sander Nederveen
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