Sluicing
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For the gated water channel, see Sluice. For the topic in mining, see Ground sluicing.
In syntax, sluicing is a type of ellipsis that occurs in both direct and indirect interrogative clauses. The ellipsis is introduced by a wh-expression, whereby in most cases, everything except the wh-expression is elided from the clause. Sluicing has been studied in detail in the early 21st century and it is therefore a relatively well-understood type of ellipsis.[1] Sluicing occurs in many languages.[2]