Connectivity in Turkish Sluicing-like Constructions

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2021-08-11

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Kiper, Sebahat Yağmur

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In this study, I explore sluicing-like constructions (SLCs) in Turkish from the perspective of case connectivity between the wh-phrase in the ellipsis site (wh-remnant) and the indefinite pronoun in the antecedent clause (indefinite correlate). Case connectivity refers to the wh-remnant sharing the morphological case of its correlate, while anti-connectivity refers to the wh-remnant surfacing bare, regardless of the form of the correlate, both of which are observed in Turkish. The wh-remnant can also carry the tense marker of the elided verb in Turkish regardless of the case or not. In what follows, I first provide judgments regarding which SLCs are well-formed in Turkish given the controversial ones in literature (cf. Ince, 2012) and then I offer a partially unified analysis of SLCs compatible with the recent judgments of my informants.

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/93664

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23rd Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar (SICOGG 23)

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S. Y. Kiper, “Connectivity in Turkish Sluicing-like Constructions,” Seoul, Güney Kore, 2021, p. 324, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: http://www.kggc.org/subList/32000001427?pmode=detail&nttSeq=1000000189.