Sluicing: Cross-Linguistic Perspectives

This book considers the phenomenon of sluicing. Sluicing is the term applied to sentences in which the ellipsis of a sequence of words following an embedded wh question word appears to occur, and hearers must somehow recover the content of missing material (as in Someone saw her, but I don''t know who _.). Elliptical constructions of this type are now known to occur widely in the world''s language...