Sluicing and constraints on quantifier scope

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One of the fascinations of Sluicing – one that figured in Ross’s (1969) original exploration of the construction – is that it seems to overcome many island effects. Most speakers find contrasts between the pairs of sentences in (1) and (2), for instance.

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Sluicing and logical form.Sandra Chung, William A. Ladusaw & James McCloskey - 1995 - Natural Language Semantics 3 (3):239-282.
Deletion, Deaccenting, and Presupposition.Christopher Damian Tancredi - 1992 - Dissertation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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