Remarks on sluicing
Ivan A. Sag, Joanna Nykiel · Proceedings of the International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar · 2011
Sluicing is widely regarded as requiring an analysis via deletion operations, a potentially problematic conclusion for non-transformational frameworks like HPSG. We examine critically and reassess the motivation for a deletion analysis of Sluicing, offering cross-linguistic and language-internal evidence in support of a fundamentally semantic constructional alternative like the one proposed by Ginzburg and Sag (2000).