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ABSTRACT:
An in-depth examination of sluiced prepositional phrases reveals sluices for which interpretation is unobtainable by parallelism with an antecedent. To accommodate these, I propose sluices are licensed by serving to question an inferred argument of a semantically compatible and salient antecedent. Both a corpus investigation and a grammaticality survey provide corroboration.

SUGGESTED CITATION:
Henry Beecher, "Pragmatic Inference in the Interpretation of Sluiced Prepositional Phrases" (2008). Department of Linguistics, UCSD. San Diego Linguistics Papers Issue 3. Paper 4.
http://repositories.cdlib.org/ucsdling/sdlp3/4