Island Constraints (eBook, PDF)

Theory, Acquisition and Processing
Redaktion: Goodluck, H.; Rochemont, M.

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Produktbeschreibung

constraints', which serve to block the association of antecedent to gap under specific syntactic conditions. Of the restrictions identified by Ross and others, the ones we will discuss here are the Complex NP Constraint, exemplified with a relative clause in (3b) and with a nominal complement in (4a), the Subject and wh Island Conditions (Chomsky, 1973) in (4b, c) respectively, and the Adjunct Island Condi tion (see Huang, 1982's Condition on Extraction Domain), illustrated in (4d, e). (4) (a) *John, Mary made the claim that Sally plans to recommend_ for ajob. John, Mary claimed that Sally plans to recommend _ for a job. As for John, Mary heard the rumor that Sally intends to marry him. (b) *John, an article about _just appeared in the newspaper. As for John, an article about him just appeared in the news paper. (c) *Bill, I wonder who likes_. As for Bill, I wonder who likes him. (d) *The heat, we left early because of _. As for the heat, we left early because of it. (e) *The money, I lied so that I could keep_. As for the money, I lied so that I could keep it.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Netherlands
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. März 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9789401719803
• Artikelnr.: 43985364

Inhaltsangabe

Island Constraints: an Introduction.- No Variable Is an Island: Computational Complexity and Island Constraints.- Parsing Complex NPs in French.- Resumptive Pronouns in Islands.- Islands, Learnability and the Lexicon.- Adjunct Islands and Acquisition.- Argument Extraction out of Indirect Questions in French.- Deriving Island Constraints from Principles of Predication.- Sentences as Islands: on the Boundedness of A?-Movement in American Sign Language.- Which Children Did They Show Obey Strong Crossover?.- Processing Subject Extractions.- Parsing with Grammar: Islands, Heads, and Garden Paths.- Island Constraints at Eighty.- Bounding Rightward ?-dependencies.- Sensitivity to Islands in an Aphasic Individual.- The Processing Implementation of Syntactic Constraints: the Sentence Matching Debate.- Subjacency Violations and Empty Categories in Second Language Acquisition.- List of Contributors.- Name Index.