Interdisciplinary Colloquium
Prof. Luka Crnič, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
As part of the department’s weekly research colloquium,
held every Thursday from 16:15 to 17:45 in the Webb Building (Room 103),
the following lecture by Prof. Luka Crnič (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) will take place:
Sluicing, strictly & without evasion
Abstract:
A conservative approach to simple and multiple sluicing is defended. The approach adopts a strict LF parallelism condition on ellipsis licensing, allows for successive cyclicity in all instances of movement, and does not assume island repair. Additionally, it is non-evasive, meaning it does not rely on short sources in the licensing of sluicing. Such a conservative setup inevitably departs from some received assumptions elsewhere. Its main departure is that it treats indefinites uniformly as simple existential quantifiers, rather than Skolemized choice functions. The lubricant that makes this seemingly unviable combination of assumptions work, hopefully, is the grammar of questions and its recently popularized deployment in the analysis of exceptional scope.
All are welcome!
