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 …

Abstract According to Featural Relativized Minimality, the local relation between an
extracted element and its trace is disrupted when it crosses an intervening element whose …

Wh-island effects are notorious for their cross-linguistic variation. However, experimental
syntax studies observed super-additive wh-island effects in some languages which were …

A growing body of experimental syntactic research has revealed substantial variation in the
magnitude of island effects, not only across languages but also across different grammatical …

Purpose Relative clauses present a well-known processing asymmetry between object-
extracted and subject-extracted dependencies across both typical and atypical populations …

Lánnang-uè, as used in Manila, is a predominantly oral Sino-Philippine variety that has
elements derived from Hokkien, Mandarin, English, and Tagalog. Its users, the Lannangs …

This dissertation is concerned with extraction from adjunct clauses in Swedish and English.
The topic is of interest because adjunct clauses are traditionally considered to be strong …

In processing filler-gap dependencies, comprehenders quickly postulate gaps in
syntactically licensed positions, but not in syntactic islands. This suggests that …

It is often reported that embedded questions (EQs) are not syntactic islands in Spanish.
However, some authors have observed that the acceptability of filler-gap dependencies …

One of the defining characteristics of human languages is the existence of long-distance
dependencies: dependencies that can exist between two elements with no apparent bound …