We provide an account of clause-boundedness in multiple sluicing that also captures its exceptions. Clause-boundedness arises whenever an embedded clause’s subject is not coreferential with a topical discourse referent in the embedding clause. Our account ties clause-boundedness to discourse factors. We discuss implementations that import sensitivity to information structure into the syntax, and compare our approach with recent work—in particular, Grano and Lasnik 2018 and “short source” accounts (most recently, Abels and Dayal 2017, 2021)—and demonstrate that these accounts both under- and overgenerate. The empirical coverage of our account argues against purely syntacticized agreement-based approaches to clause-boundedness.

我们提供了多重疏导中的子句界限性的说明，该说明也捕获了其异常。当嵌入子句的主语与嵌入子句中的主题话语所指不共指时，子句界限就会出现。我们的解释将子句界限与话语因素联系起来。我们讨账户生成不足和过多。我们的论述的实证覆盖反对纯粹句法化的基于协议的子句界限方法。