observed that “island” structures like “Who do you think [NP the gift from__] prompted the
rumor?” or “Who did you hear [NP the statement [S that the CEO promoted__]]?” are not …

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Periphery | The Cartography of Syntactic Structures, Volume 8 | Liliane Haegeman OXFORD …

Competence-based theories of island effects play a central role in generative grammar, yet
the graded nature of many syntactic islands has never been properly accounted for …

The source of syntactic island effects has been a topic of considerable debate within
linguistics and psycholinguistics. Explanations fall into three basic categories: grammatical …

Finite clausal arguments differ from other arguments—and other CPs—in two fundamental
ways:(a) they do not move leftward (,,,) and (b) they may combine with nouns that do not …

Quantification forms a significant aspect of cross-linguistic research into both sentence
structure and meaning. This book surveys research in quantification starting with the …

In order to explain the unacceptability of certain long-distance dependencies–termed
syntactic islands by Ross (1967)–syntacticians proposed constraints on long-distance …

An extended argument for a syntactic view of NEG raising with consequences for the syntax
of negation and negative polarity items. In this book, Chris Collins and Paul Postal consider …

The goal of this article is to explore the utility of experimental syntax techniques in the
investigation of syntactic variation. To that end, we applied the factorial definition of island …

Different verbs can take different kinds of arguments. Factive verbs such as remember and
forget take clausal complements which are presupposed to be true. In contrast, verbs such …