Island Constraints

Island Constraints Theory, Acquisition, and Processing - Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics

1992

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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.

Book information

ISBN: 9780792316893
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Imprint: Springer
Pub date:
Edition: 1992
DEWEY: 425
DEWEY edition: 20
Language: English
Number of pages: 479
Weight: 1900g
Height: 235mm
Width: 155mm
Spine width: 26mm