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Adjunct Islands in English : Theoretical Perspectives and Experimental Evidence
Adjunct Islands in English : Theoretical Perspectives and Experimental Evidence
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Author(s): Kehl, Andreas
ISBN No.: 9783112215173
Pages: 345
Year: 202506
Format: Trade Paper
Price: $ 30.79
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available

Island phenomena are a central topic in generative grammar, especially because of principled exceptions to these general extraction constraints. This volume investigates exceptional extractions from phrasal adjunct islands. It argues, based on experimental studies, that several factors identified in the previous literature are uninformative about locality conditions because they show effects in both extraction and non-extraction sentence forms. The volume develops a multifactorial model to account for these effects without appealing to universal extraction conditions and argues that the relative acceptability of the underlying proposition determines acceptability across sentence types.


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