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ISLAND CONSTRAINTS
THEORY, ACQUISITION, AND PROCESSING : CONFERENCE : PAPERS |
By: |
Helen Goodluck (Editor), Michael S. Rochemont (Editor) |
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Hardback |

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ISBN 10: |
0792316894 |
ISBN 13: |
9780792316893 |
Publisher: |
KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS |
Pub. date: |
1 October, 1992 |
Edition: |
1992 ed. |
Series: |
Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics v. 15 |
Pages: |
480 |
Description: |
Comprising articles on the theory, acquisition and processing of island constraints, this work takes an interdisciplinary approach to this syntactic phenomenon. Both transformational and non-transformational approaches to island constraints are represented. |
Synopsis: |
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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Kluwer Academic Publishers |
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