Sluicing: Cross-Linguistic Perspectives
Edited by Jason Merchant and Andrew Simpson
Author Information
Jason Merchant is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Chicago. He has written extensively on ellipsis, including on sluicing, swiping, fragment answers, verb phrase ellipsis, antecedent-contained ellipsis, comparative ellipsis, and nominal ellipsis. His other interests are in case, split ergativity, locality, islands, agreement, and topics in the syntax-semantics interface. His primary language areas are in Germanic, Greek, and Romance. He studied at Yale, Tubingen, Utrecht, and the University of California at Santa Cruz, where he received his Ph.D. in 1999.
Andrew Simpson is Professor of Linguistics and East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Southern California. His research is focused on the comparative syntax of East, Southeast and South Asian languages, in particular Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese, Burmese, Bangla and Hindi. He is the author of Wh-Movement and the Theory of Feature Checking (John Benjamins), the editor of Language and National Identity in Asia and Language and National Identity in Africa (Oxford University Press), and joint general editor of the Journal of East Asian Linguistics. He has published articles in Linguistic Inquiry, Language, Lingua, the Journal of East Asian Linguistics, Studies in Language, Language and Linguistics, and the Journal of the South East Asian Linguistics Society.
Contributors:
Jason Merchant, Department of Linguistics, University of Chicago
Andrew Simpson, East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Southern California
Perng Wang Adams,
Tasnmoy Bhattacharya, Department of Linguistics, University of Delhi
Jeroen van Craenenbroeck, Center for Research in Syntax, Semantics, and Phonology, Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel
Teruhiko Fukaya, Gunma Prefectural Women's University in Japan
Frederick Hoyt,
Atakan Ince, MultiLingual Solutions, Maryland
Masanori Nakamura, Senshu University
Ileana Paul, University of Western Ontario
Eric Potsdam, Department of Linguistics, University of Florida
John R Ross, Department of Linguistics and Technical Communication, University of North texas
Sandra Stjepanovic, West Virginia University
Alexandra Teodorescu, Visiting Scholar, New York University
Satoshi Tomioka, Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Science, University of Delaware