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Noun Concept
Categories: Syntactic entities, Syntactic transformation
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sluicing
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In syntax, sluicing is a type of ellipsis that occurs in both direct and indirect interrogative clauses. Wikipedia
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In syntax, sluicing is a type of ellipsis that occurs in both direct and indirect interrogative clauses. Wikipedia
A kind of ellipsis, introduced by an interrogative, where (usually) everything except the interrogative is elided from the clause, as in "I like him, but I don't know why". Wiktionary
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