Another Aspect of the Pair-List Reading in Japanese

1 The glosses used in this paper are as follows: Nom = nominative Case, Acc = Accusative Case, Dat = dative Case, Q = Question particle, Cop = copula, Top = topic marker, Nmlz = nominalizer. 2 Unlike English sluicing which is generally considered as TP deletion following overt wh-movement, as in (i), Japanese sluicing-like construction is considered as the deletion of the presupposition part of the clefting, as in (ii) (e.g. Kizu 1997;Kuwabawa 1997; Nishiyama, Whitman, and Yi 1996) (c.f. Hiraiwa and Ishihara 2002, 2012; Fukaya 2007, Nakamura 2012 etc).