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초록

This paper aims to claim that there is no canonical sluicing construction in Korean as far as merger type sluicing is concerned. The paper puts its first focus on investigating full-fledged sets of sluicing-like data, revealing their morphosyntactic and sometimes pragmatic characteristics. Then it deals with main issues actively discussed in previous research on sluicing; e.g., multiple wh-questions, island effects, postposition stranding, and case drop. Through scrutinizing empirical data and syntactic-semantic properties of sluicing, this paper finally concludes that the Korean sluicing-like construction of merger type is in fact a copular wh-question construction. The paper also provides an account for what the structure of this construction is like, why the construction shows such properties as previously discussed, and how the proposal is supported by further data from other languages.

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