Theoretical-experimental remarks on the underlying structure of sluicing with preposition deletion

Results of two acceptability judgment tasks on preposition deletion (P-deletion) in Brazilian Portuguese are presented. The first experiment contrasts P-deletion under sluicing (Merchant (2001) with P-deletion under interrogatives double-filled CPs. In the second experiment, acceptability of P-delet...

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Main Authors: Cilene Rodrigues, Ludmila Milhorance
Format: Article
Language:Portuguese
Published: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro 2019-12-01
Series:Revista Linguística
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Online Access:https://revistas.ufrj.br/index.php/rl/article/view/30149