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SLUICING AND STRIPPING IN JAPANESE AND SOME IMPLICATIONS
by
Teruhiko Fukaya
_______________________________________________________________
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(LINGUISTICS)
May 2007
Copyright 2007 Teruhiko Fukaya
Object Description
| Title | Sluicing and stripping in Japanese and some implications |
| Author | Fukaya, Teruhiko |
| Author email | tefukaya@gmail.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Linguistics |
| School | College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2006-05-16 |
| Date submitted | 2007 |
| Restricted until | Restricted until 25 April 2009. |
| Date published | 2009-04-25 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Hoji, Hajime |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Borer, Hagit Li, Audrey |
| Abstract | This dissertation is a generative-grammatical study of the constructions called sluicing and stripping in Japanese. It argues for the thesis, advocated by Hoji & Li (1994) and Fukaya & Hoji (1999), that sluicing and stripping are manifestations of the same syntactic phenomenon in Japanese, i.e., that their derivations involve the same set of formal operations. In order to establish the thesis, this dissertation investigates significantly more involved empirical materials pertaining to island sensitivity and the availability of the sloppy identity reading than previous studies of these constructions.; Chapters 2 and 3 examine the properties of sluicing and stripping in Japanese with respect to island sensitivity. Chapters 4 and 5 investigate their properties with respect to the availability of the sloppy identity reading. It is demonstrated in these four chapters that Japanese sluicing and stripping exhibit the same set of properties in regard to these two aspects. It is then claimed that ellipsis resolution in the case-marked versions of sluicing and stripping involves Constituent Raising in the "antecedent" IP and the copying of the resulting IP onto the ellipsis site. It is also claimed that ellipsis resolution in their non-case-marked counterparts, by contrast, does not necessarily involve such operations and that the copula structure is also a possibility for them. Chapter 6 then argues that the alternative accounts that analyze sluicing as analogous to wh-questions in English cannot capture the clear parallelism between sluicing and stripping demonstrated in the preceding chapters and also that stripping and, as a result, sluicing cannot be reduced to the cleft construction, contrary to what has sometimes been proposed in the literature. This chapter also discusses some implications of the present analysis for English sluicing and fragments. Chapter 7 summarizes the thesis and addresses some outstanding issues. |
| Keyword | sluicing; stripping; ellipsis; fragment; Japanese; English; island; sloppy identity reading |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m466 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Fukaya, Teruhiko |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Fukaya-20070425 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume29/etd-Fukaya-20070425.pdf |
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| Title | Page 1 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Full text | SLUICING AND STRIPPING IN JAPANESE AND SOME IMPLICATIONS by Teruhiko Fukaya _______________________________________________________________ A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (LINGUISTICS) May 2007 Copyright 2007 Teruhiko Fukaya |
