This book introduces formal grammar theories that play a role in current linguistic theorizing
(Phrase Structure Grammar, Transformational Grammar/Government & Binding, Generalized …

Mental representations formed from words or phrases may vary considerably in their feature-
based complexity. Modern theories of retrieval in sentence comprehension do not indicate …

This article delineates and analyzes the syntactic and semantic parameters of variation
exhibited by English filler-gap constructions. It demonstrates that a detailed, fully explicit …

This book presents a novel semantic account of weak, or selective, islands. Weak islands
are configurations that block the displacement of certain elements in a sentence. Examples …

This book is about one of the most intriguing features of human communication systems: the
fact that words that go together in meaning can occur arbitrarily far away from each other. In …

Locality constraints on displacement as they have been proposed over the last decades
(since Chomsky (1964) and Ross (1967)) have been highly successful from an empirical …

This volume brings together cutting-edge experimental research from leaders in the fields of
linguistics and psycholinguistics to explore the nature of a phenomenon that has long been …

In many different domains of language acquisition, there exists an apparent learnability
problem to which innate knowledge of some aspect of universal grammar (UG) has been …

Sentence acceptability experiments have become increasingly common since Cowart
(1997) first presented a detailed method for carrying them out, but there is still relatively little …

This work provides evidence that Subject Island violation effects vanish if subject-embedded
gaps are made as frequent and pragmatically felicitous as non-island counterpart controls …