عنوان

'What' Did Not Move: Sluicing in Minimalist Grammars

شماره

TL55912

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

'What' Did Not Move: Sluicing in Minimalist Grammars

نام عام مواد

[Thesis]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Wong, Deborah Jia Ming

نام ساير پديدآوران

Hunter, Timothy

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

University of California, Los Angeles

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2020

متن يادداشت

207 p.

جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن

Ph.D.

کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده

University of California, Los Angeles

امتياز متن

2020

متن يادداشت

Sluicing is a type of ellipsis where only a wh-phrase, the remnant, is pronounced while the entire TP node of the embedded interrogative clause is unpronounced (e.g. 'John met someone, but I don't know who'). Traditional analyses of sluicing (Ross 1969, Merchant 2001) involve wh-movement of the remnant, followed by the deletion of TP (e.g. 'John met someone yesterday, but I don't know who John met yesterday'). The remnant is taken to move overtly in a similar fashion to regular wh-words in questions. This dissertation argues against wh-movement in sluicing and proposes an alternative analysis that does not involve overt movement of the remnant. The analysis is explored with Malay (Austronesian, Malaysia), which has both movement and no movement for question formation. Evidence from Malay suggests that sluicing uses the no movement option rather than the movement option for sluicing. In the proposed analysis, the remnant does not move, while the surrounding material is elided (e.g. 'John met someone yesterday, but I don't know John met who yesterday'). The remnant is argued to have the semantic characteristics of in situ wh-phrases and indefinites, both of which do not undergo movement. These characteristics are argued to give rise to the patterns seen in sluicing. This analysis is then implemented within the Minimalist Grammars framework, where the architecture of the grammar allows for the possibility of non-constituent deletion. Movement in Minimalist Grammars is thought to involve multi-component expressions that allows individual components to be held out of the main derivation. The analysis makes use of this notion of separation between components to implement sluicing.

اصطلاح موضوعی

Language

اصطلاح موضوعی

Linguistics

اصطلاح موضوعی

Sociolinguistics

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Wong, Deborah Jia Ming

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Hunter, Timothy

مستند نام تنالگان تاييد نشده

University of California, Los Angeles

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Thesis]

کد کاربرگه

276903

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y