Sluicing

This study attempts to account for the argument-adjunct asymmetry of Sluicing in Mandarin Chinese. Such an asymmetry is empirically demonstrated by a language-particular phenomenon, so-called shi-support, which is also the …...

Sluicing is an elliptical process where the ma- jority of a question can go unpronounced as long as there is a salient antecedent in previ- ous discourse. This paper considers …...