UnElided Basic Remnants In Germanic Ellipsis or: ÜBRIGE Arguments
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In this paper I seek to determine what is going on with examples like (1) seen below. Here we see that the normal English word order, wherein prepositions live up to their name, is altered. The preposition to appears to the right (or after) its object. This sort of construction has been dubbed Swiping (an acronym for Sluiced Wh-word Inversion with Prepositions In Northern Germanic) by Merchant (2002) and I will follow this usage here.
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