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Sluicing And Left-Branch Extraction Out Of Islands, Lydia Grebenyova

Linguistics

It has been observed by Ross (1969), Lasnik (1999, 2000) and Merchant (2001) that Sluicing, an instance of ellipsis, has an ability to ameliorate certain grammatical violations, such as extraction out of an island. It has also been argued by Merchant (2001) that Sluicing can repair Left-branch Extraction (LBE) violations. However, as Merchant (2001) observes, if a left-branch is extracted out of an island, Sluicing fails to repair the derivation. In section 2, I will demonstrate these puzzling facts and extend the initial observation to other contexts, combining several locality violations under Sluicing. In section 3, I examine what prevents …

Agreement In Russian Secondary Predicates, Lydia Grebenyova

Linguistics

This paper will be concerned with the distribution of Case marking in Russian

secondary predicates. I will particularly analyze Case alternations in simple

matrix clauses and control configurations. I account for these facts by

distinguishing NP-movement structures from the structures containing a null

pronominal. This general topic is often referred to as the Second Dative.

However, it is somewhat misleading because Dative Case marking happens to be

very unproductive in secondary predicates in Russian, with a more general

paradigm involving actually Instrumental Case.