Recent Advances in Research on Island Phenomena
In natural languages, filler-gap dependencies can straddle across an unbounded distance. Since the 1960s, the term “island” has been used to describe syntactic structures from which extraction is impossible or impeded. While examples from English are ubiquitous, attested counterexamples in the Mainl...
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| description | In natural languages, filler-gap dependencies can straddle across an unbounded distance. Since the 1960s, the term “island” has been used to describe syntactic structures from which extraction is impossible or impeded. While examples from English are ubiquitous, attested counterexamples in the Mainland Scandinavian languages have continuously been dismissed as illusory and alternative accounts for the underlying structure of such cases have been proposed. However, since such extractions are pervasive in spoken Mainland Scandinavian, these languages may not have been given the attention that they deserve in the syntax literature. In addition, recent research suggests that extraction from certain types of island structures in English might not be as unacceptable as previously assumed either. These findings break new empirical ground, question perceived knowledge, and may indeed have substantial ramifications for syntactic theory. This volume provides an overview of state-of-the-art research on island phenomena primarily in English and the Scandinavian languages, focusing on how languages compare to English, with the aim to shed new light on the nature of island constraints from different theoretical perspectives. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-966812024-03-29T08:01:40Z Recent Advances in Research on Island Phenomena Nyvad, Anne Mette Christensen, Ken Ramshøj syntactic satiation linguistic judgments island effects experimental syntax syntactic theory island constraints processing complexity unacceptability and grammaticality A′ constructions frequency surprisal islands relative clauses wh-movement canonical and noncanonical existentials movement from DP acceptability judgments adjunct clauses corpus study Danish English preposing topicalization Faroese Icelandic Swedish contrastive topic continued topic VP ellipsis A-bar movement extraction island phenomena Scandinavian syntactic dependencies adjunct islands wh-extraction locality present participle gradient acceptability acceptability model wh-questions Norwegian syntax acceptability grammaticality satiation variation Islands adaptation n/a bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JM Psychology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JM Psychology In natural languages, filler-gap dependencies can straddle across an unbounded distance. Since the 1960s, the term “island” has been used to describe syntactic structures from which extraction is impossible or impeded. While examples from English are ubiquitous, attested counterexamples in the Mainland Scandinavian languages have continuously been dismissed as illusory and alternative accounts for the underlying structure of such cases have been proposed. However, since such extractions are pervasive in spoken Mainland Scandinavian, these languages may not have been given the attention that they deserve in the syntax literature. In addition, recent research suggests that extraction from certain types of island structures in English might not be as unacceptable as previously assumed either. These findings break new empirical ground, question perceived knowledge, and may indeed have substantial ramifications for syntactic theory. This volume provides an overview of state-of-the-art research on island phenomena primarily in English and the Scandinavian languages, focusing on how languages compare to English, with the aim to shed new light on the nature of island constraints from different theoretical perspectives. 2023-02-02T16:36:14Z 2023-02-02T16:36:14Z 2023 book ONIX_20230202_9783036563169_82 9783036563169 9783036563176 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/96681 eng image/jpeg Attribution 4.0 International https://mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/6626 https://mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/6626 MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 10.3390/books978-3-0365-6317-6 10.3390/books978-3-0365-6317-6 46cabcaa-dd94-4bfe-87b4-55023c1b36d0 9783036563169 9783036563176 300 Basel open access |
| spellingShingle | syntactic satiation linguistic judgments island effects experimental syntax syntactic theory island constraints processing complexity unacceptability and grammaticality A′ constructions frequency surprisal islands relative clauses wh-movement canonical and noncanonical existentials movement from DP acceptability judgments adjunct clauses corpus study Danish English preposing topicalization Faroese Icelandic Swedish contrastive topic continued topic VP ellipsis A-bar movement extraction island phenomena Scandinavian syntactic dependencies adjunct islands wh-extraction locality present participle gradient acceptability acceptability model wh-questions Norwegian syntax acceptability grammaticality satiation variation Islands adaptation n/a bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JM Psychology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JM Psychology Recent Advances in Research on Island Phenomena |
| title | Recent Advances in Research on Island Phenomena |
| title_full | Recent Advances in Research on Island Phenomena |
| title_fullStr | Recent Advances in Research on Island Phenomena |
| title_full_unstemmed | Recent Advances in Research on Island Phenomena |
| title_short | Recent Advances in Research on Island Phenomena |
| title_sort | recent advances in research on island phenomena |
| topic | syntactic satiation linguistic judgments island effects experimental syntax syntactic theory island constraints processing complexity unacceptability and grammaticality A′ constructions frequency surprisal islands relative clauses wh-movement canonical and noncanonical existentials movement from DP acceptability judgments adjunct clauses corpus study Danish English preposing topicalization Faroese Icelandic Swedish contrastive topic continued topic VP ellipsis A-bar movement extraction island phenomena Scandinavian syntactic dependencies adjunct islands wh-extraction locality present participle gradient acceptability acceptability model wh-questions Norwegian syntax acceptability grammaticality satiation variation Islands adaptation n/a bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JM Psychology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JM Psychology |
| topic_facet | syntactic satiation linguistic judgments island effects experimental syntax syntactic theory island constraints processing complexity unacceptability and grammaticality A′ constructions frequency surprisal islands relative clauses wh-movement canonical and noncanonical existentials movement from DP acceptability judgments adjunct clauses corpus study Danish English preposing topicalization Faroese Icelandic Swedish contrastive topic continued topic VP ellipsis A-bar movement extraction island phenomena Scandinavian syntactic dependencies adjunct islands wh-extraction locality present participle gradient acceptability acceptability model wh-questions Norwegian syntax acceptability grammaticality satiation variation Islands adaptation n/a bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JM Psychology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JM Psychology |
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