You may like or dislike this paper, and we do care which. Sluicing and free choice

Abstract

In this paper we study how different FC inferences are derived in cases of sluiced sentences that differ just by the verb embedding the sluice, improving on Fusco (2019). We propose to add a new economy condition to Rudin (2019) that is able to derive – together with other existing constraints – the desired sluices from certain syntactico-semantic properties (temporal orientation; Condoravdi 2001) of embedding verbs. We then present an analysis in which the attested FC inferences are derived from the different sluices through the interplay of scopal parallelism (Chung et al. 1995; Fusco 2019) and uniqueness presupposition of singular 'which' clauses (Dayal 1996).