Partial Case-Marking in Japanese Stripping/Sluicing: A Dynamic Syntax Account
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This article presents novel data on partial casemarking in Japanese stripping/sluicing: only the final NP in multiple stripping/sluicing may lack a case particle. These data challenge previous works that assign radically distinct structures to stripping/sluicing depending on whether or not case-marking is involved. These case-marking patterns are reducible to incremental growth of semantic representation, formalised in Dynamic Syntax: each NP is parsed at an ‘unfixed’ node, and this structural uncertainty must be resolved before another unfixed node is introduced.
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