@article{c4bd6e62c8674172a642f2d88427845c,
title = "Deriving sluicing-like constructions in Isbukun Bunun",
abstract = "This paper investigates the sluicing-like constructions (SLCs) in Isbukun Bunun, a language which always places its wh-words at the left-peripheral position, and it is argued that genuine sluicing is not available in this language. The evidence in favor of the pseudo-sluicing analysis draws on the behavior of how-phrases, the failure of implicit discourse anaphoric arguments and the absence of sloppy identity reading in Isbukun SLCs. These properties are otherwise hard to accommodate in a movement and deletion approach but rather follow from the view that SLCs in Isbukun Bunun are derived from independent syntactic operations including pro-drop.",
keywords = "Isbukun Bunun, Pro-drop, Pseudo-sluicing, Sluicing, Wh-formation",
author = "Wu, {Hsiao Hung Iris}",
note = "Funding Information: I wish to thank Taupas Tansikian for his assistance and boundless patience for all these years. Special thanks are also due to the editors and three anonymous reviewers for their many helpful comments upon earlier drafts of this paper. All errors, empirical or conceptual, remain my own responsibility. This work was sponsored by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan (for-merly National Science Council, NSC 102-2410-H-003-017-). Funding Information: I wish to thank Taupas Tansikian for his assistance and boundless patience for all these years. Special thanks are also due to the editors and three anonymous reviewers for their many helpful comments upon earlier drafts of this paper. All errors, empirical or conceptual, remain my own responsibility. This work was sponsored by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan (formerly National Science Council, NSC 102-2410-H-003-017-). Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} John Benjamins Publishing Company.",
year = "2018",
doi = "10.1075/lali.00023.wu",
language = "English",
volume = "19",
pages = "635--662",
journal = "Language and Linguistics",
issn = "1606-822X",
publisher = "中央研究院語言學研究所",
number = "4",
}