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Phase by Phase Givenness, at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, Friday, November 20, 2015:

Some sluicing constructions that do not have an overt grammatical continuation, be it cleft, wh-movement. For example, Polish and Indonesian can omit  Prepositions in sluice constructions whose anaphor cannot be expressed in the form of a wh-expression or a cleft, or any type of overt movement (Sato 2011), (Nykiel 2013)

1.     Byłaś ubrana  w  czerwonego    tamtej nocy, ale nie pamiętam (w) co
       were dressed in something red       that night but not remember (in) what
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