E-type anaphora will do

E-type anaphora will do

  Assuming that the elided part of sluicing has an internal structure, this paper argues that various aspects of sluicing can be accounted for if we employ the Cooper style analysis of E-type anaphora. Legitimate putative sources for sluicing with E-type anaphoric expressions enable us to abandon both a heterogeneous theory of Merchant (2001) and unnecessary complication of sentence derivation of Lasnik (2001, 2005), violation and the undoing of the violation in sluicing. After introducing cases where employing E-type pronouns is the only way to retrieve putative sources for the elided portion in sluicing, this paper extends the E-type anaphora approach to others to show that it is not only necessary but sufficient for interpretations of sluicing.