Jason Merchant

Sluicing, Islands, and Identity in Ellipsis

The Syntax of Silence

Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics Jason Merchant

The first book-length treatment of the most cross-linguistically widespread form of ellipsis: elliptical wh-questions, known as sluices. Drawing on data from thirty languages, Merchant shows that sluicing structures are crucial to answering the fundamental questions about the nature of ellipsis and its resolution. The author also carefully documents a number of original generalizations concerning form-identity effects and the complementizer system.

Sluicing, Islands, and the Theory of Ellipsis

Andrew Simpson

This book of new research by leading experts expands our current understanding of the ways in which languages allow for ellipsis of the sluicing type to occur, and shows how sluicing constructions reveal important information about the general architecture of grammar.

Jason Merchant

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