Author:
Ott Dennis,Therrien Raymond
Abstract
AbstractThis paper documents the existence ofswiping– that is, inversion of awh-phrase and its associated preposition under sluicing – in a non-Germanic language. We discuss swiping in a variety of Ontario French (Lafontaine French, LFF), which shares some of the characteristics of its extensively-studied English counterpart (Ross 1969, Merchant 2002, among others). We offer a preliminary description of swiping in LFF and consider some implications of these novel facts for the theory of swiping and sluicing. We suggest that LFF swiping supports an analysis in terms of non-constituent deletion, as originally suggested by Ross (1969) in his seminal work on sluicing.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics
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