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Island Constraints: Theory, Acquisition and Processing

By Helen Goodluck , Michael Rochemont (auth.) , Michael Rochemont (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Year
1992
ISBN
978-90-481-4148-7, 978-94-017-1980-3
DOI
10.1007/978-94-017-1980-3
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
16 MB (16842009 bytes)
Series
Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics 15
Edition
1
Pages
480\479
Time added
2013-12-12 02:00:00
Psycholinguistics; Syntax; Interdisciplinary Studi

Description

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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