Resumption as a sluicing source in Saudi Arabic: Evidence from sluicing with prepositional phrases

This paper reports the results of three acceptability judgment experiments on Saudi Arabic elliptical questions (sluicing) with prepositional phrases. We show that in standard cases of merger type sluicing and contrastive sluicing there is no penalty for leaving out the preposition. Under an analysi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Klaus Abels, Yara Alshaalan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2020-01-01
Series:Glossa
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Online Access:https://www.glossa-journal.org/article/id/5256/