The Korean sluicing construction has recently been a main topic of research on the mismatch between form and meaning, in the sense that the wh-remnant phrase is interpreted as an interrogative phrase. The construction also shares some properties with pseudocleft as well as copula constructions, but at the same time bears distinctive properties from these two. This paper argues that the idiosyncrasies of the construction make it implausible to derive sluicing from any of the two and further shows that the construction belongs to a family of constructions including all the three: copula, pseudo-cleft, and sluicing. The 'constructional view' of the Korean sluicing allows us to capture the generalizations of the Korean sluicing in a holistic way.
Abstract
1. Introduction
2. Some General Properties of the Sluicing Construction
3. Previous Approaches
4. A Constructional View of Grammar
5. Sluicing in Korean
6. Conclusion
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