This thesis is concerned with sluicing, the ellipsis of TP in a Wh-question leaving a Wh-
phrase “remnant” overt. Sluicing is subject to an identity condition that must hold between …

While the left clausal periphery has been in the center of attention of syntactic theory since
the 1970s, the right periphery remains comparatively ill-understood. The goal of this paper is …

The article establishes a new generalization concerning domains from which extraction is
possible. Taking as the starting point the well-known difference between NPs and VPs …

Analyses of the ellipsis identity condition must account for the fact that some syntactic
mismatches between an ellipsis site E and its antecedent A are possible while others are …

This thesis is a cross-linguistic investigation into the nature of null arguments in radical pro-
drop languages where null arguments are claimed to be derivable via the process called …

This paper argues that the meaning of a clausal ellipsis site can only be recovered from a
syntactically derived question, regardless of whether this question is explicitly uttered or is …

This paper focuses on multiple sluicing (MS) utterances in which the antecedent for sluicing
is syntactically complex, insofar as it contains at least one embedded clause. Complex …

This article presents novel data from ellipsis in Nupe, a Benue-Congo language of Nigeria,
and explores its theoretical implications. Three claims are made. First, sluicing in Nupe …

A number of works have attempted to account for the interaction between movement and
ellipsis in terms of an economy condition Max-Elide. We show that the elimination of …

This report describes a new research resource: a searchable database of 4,700 naturally
occurring instances of sluicing in English, annotated so as to shed light on the questions that …