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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Format:	Online
Language:	English
Published:	MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2023
Subjects:	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
Online Access:	ONIX_20230202_9783036563169_82
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