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« TA Training Seminar | Main | Phonology Group»
Syntax Reading Group
Syntax Reading Group meets today (May 3), at Kyle's house, starting at 8:00 pm. Maziar Toosarvandani will present his ongoing work on sluicing in Farsi.
Abstract
How to sluice in a wh-in situ language
Sluicing is the elliptical construction in which everything in a constituent question goes missing except for the wh-phrase, e.g. (1). Merchant (2001), following work by Ross (1969), analyzes sluicing as resulting from regular wh-movement followed by deletion of TP.
(1) Someone just left--guess who.
The movement plus deletion analysis does not extend readily to Farsi, a wh-in situ language that nonetheless possesses a sluicing construction fully parallel to its counterpart in English, e.g. (2).
| (2) | rostam | ye | chizi | xarid | hads | bezan | chi |
| Rostam | one | thing | bought | guess | hit | what | |
| 'Rostam bought something. Guess what.' | |||||||
I will argue that Farsi sluicing is indeed derived by movement. The interrogative phrase raises--not to Spec-CP--but rather to the specifier of a focus projection. Deletion of TP produces the sluice in (2). With this much in place, I will then explore the formal mechanisms underlying how the identical surface forms in (1-2) are derived in languages as diverse as Farsi and English.
References
Merchant, Jason. 2001. The syntax of silence: Sluicing, islands, and the theory of ellipsis. Oxford University Press.
Ross, John Robert. 1969. Guess who? In Papers from the Fifth Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society, 252–286.