Download or read book Sluicing: Cross-Linguistic Perspectives written by Jason Merchant and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-03 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.