{"pk":57211,"title":"Embedded questions and sluicing in Georgian and Svan","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Georgian and Svan exhibit a construction similar to classical sluicing: that is, translational analogs are grammatical of sentences like \n‘Mary cooked something, but I don’t know what’\n. I provide a description of these phenomena and show that this construction in both languages satisfies standard tests for sluicing. I show that wh-movement in Georgian targets a lower position than in, say, English, namely, Spec FocP. Accordingly, I argue that the account developed in Toosarvandani (2008) for Persian and Van Craenenbroeck & Lipták (2006, 2013) for Hungarian is applicable in this case as well. Specifically, sluicing-like constructions in Georgian are derived by movement of wh-phrases into this position and subsequent deletion of the complement of the FocP. The syntax of the Svan counterpart of this construction differs in some crucial aspects and its analysis is yet to be obtained.","language":"en","license":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0","short_name":"CC BY 4.0","text":"Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\n\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0"},"keywords":[{"word":"syntax, ellipsis, sluicing, Georgian, Svan"}],"section":"Articles","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/64s9p3tk","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"David","middle_name":"","last_name":"Erschler","name_suffix":"","institution":"","department":""}],"date_submitted":"2015-11-12T20:39:53Z","date_accepted":"2015-11-12T20:39:53Z","date_published":"2015-01-01T00:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/languagesofcaucasus/article/57211/galley/43400/download/"}]}