Island phenomena are a central topic in generative grammar, especially because of principled exceptions to these general extraction constraints. This volume investigates exceptional extractions from phrasal adjunct islands. It argues, based on experimental studies, that several factors identified in the previous literature are uninformative about locality conditions because they show effects in both extraction and non-extraction sentence forms. The volume develops a multifactorial model to ...
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Adjunct Islands in English
Theoretical Perspectives and Experimental Evidence
Kehl, Andreas
Gebunden, XV, 330 S.
21 b/w ill., 24 b/w tbl.
Sprache: Englisch
230 mm
De Gruyter (2023)
Gewicht: 617 g
ISBN-13: 978-3-11-109079-5
Titelnr.: 96358118