On the Sluicing with Covert Correlates

Kim, Sun-Woong, Kim, Soo-Bong. 2017. On the Sluicing with Covert Correlates. Studies in Generative Grammar, 27-3, 631-647. This paper is an attempt to explain Chung s (2013) generalization not in terms of Case but in terms of phase. The sprouting type sluicing shows that pied piped PPs can be a sluice but not NPs. Regarding this contrast, Chung (2013) captures a generalization that prepositions cannot be stranded under sluicing when the antecedent clause does not contain an indefinite antecedent. An immediate question regarding this generalization is why? Another question, from a broader perspective, does which approach to sluicing better explain the data, PF-deletion or LF-copying. This paper shows that Chung s (2013) generalization regarding the preposition stranding and sprouting type sluicing can be derived from deeper derivational principles in terms of the non-rigid definition of phases. This paper eventually supports the view that the PF-deletion approaches to sluicing are better than LF-copying approaches. The solution is extended to explain the irreparable examples of left branch extraction (LBE) in English.