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Sloppy Identity In Chinese Sluicing-Like Constructions, Ying Gong

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Concerning the nature of sluicing-like constructions in Chinese, this thesis examines two competing analyses proposed in the literature: the pseudo-sluicing analysis and the PF-deletion (sluicing) analysis. It shows that both analyses fail to reconcile with the presence of the copula shi as well as the sloppy reading found in Chinese sluicing-like constructions. It also observes that the sloppy reading and the copula shi are in complementary distribution—constructions with the copular shi are unable to be associated with sloppy readings. With respect to such facts, this thesis suggests to divide Chinese sluicing-like constructions into two distinct syntactic structures, namely pseudo-sluicing (for …