Recent Advances in Research on Island Phenomena

• Other Authors: Nyvad, Anne Mette (Editor), Christensen, Ken Ramshøj (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2023
• Subjects: Psychology; syntactic satiation; linguistic judgments; island effects; experimental syntax; syntactic theory; island constraints; processing complexity; unacceptability and grammaticality; A' constructions; frequency; surprisal; islands; relative clauses; wh-movement; canonical and noncanonical existentials; movement from DP; acceptability judgments; adjunct clauses; corpus study; Danish; English; preposing; topicalization; Faroese; Icelandic; Swedish; contrastive topic; continued topic; VP ellipsis; A-bar movement; extraction; island phenomena; Scandinavian; syntactic dependencies; adjunct islands; wh-extraction; locality; present participle; gradient acceptability; acceptability model; wh-questions; Norwegian; syntax; acceptability; grammaticality; satiation; variation; Islands; adaptation; n/a
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In natural languages, filler-gap dependencies can straddle across an unbounded distance. Since the 1960s, the term "island" has been used to describe syntactic structures from which extraction is impossible or impeded. While examples from English are ubiquitous, attested counterexamples in...