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Is Multiple Fronting Necessary for Multiple Sluicing? The View from Hungarian
Eszter Ronai and Laura Stigliano
377-385 (complete paper or proceedings contents)

Abstract

Hungarian multiple sluicing has been claimed to only be allowed in contexts that set up a pair-list, but not a single-pair reading. This has been taken as evidence that multiple sluicing is derived from multiple wh-fronting questions, which only license pair-list, but not single-pair answers. Providing novel experimental evidence, this paper shows that all three relevant constructions in Hungarian -- multiple sluicing, single wh-fronting questions, and multiple wh-fronting questions -- in fact pattern alike in their answerhood conditions: there is a uniform preference for single-pair readings. Additionally, multiple sluicing occupies the middle ground between the two kinds of questions in terms of its preferred interpretation. It is thus argued that answerhood conditions are not sufficient to determine the source of 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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