Case and remnants in sluicing

What is it about?

A criticism on the supposedly required role of Case in the computation of ellipsis, in particular, sluicing. The analysis of cross-linguistic data provides evidence that a syntactic requirement, labeled the Remnant Condition, is indeed necessary. This condition is based on the general notion of unrecoverable information and on the proposed concept of Id(entity)-source, a restricted version of the sluiced clause, the derivation of which has to comply with all the required (syntactic and non-syntactic) identity conditions and, crucially, must be sensitive to the morphosyntactic information present both in the antecedent clause and in the remnant.

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Why is it important?

It discards the prevailing proposal that the notion of Case is a primitive required in the computation of sluicing and sheds light on the aspects of syntax that are really necessary in it.