Adjunct Islands in English : : Theoretical Perspectives and Experimental Evidence / / Andreas Kehl.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English
• VerfasserIn: Kehl, Andreas,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG] , 152
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XV, 330 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Acknowledgments --; Contents --; Abbreviations --; List of Figures --; List of Tables --; 1 Introduction --; 2 Present participle adjuncts: structure and interpretation --; 3 Previous approaches to extraction from adjuncts --; 4 Experimental evidence --; 5 A factorial acceptability model for present participle adjuncts --; 6 Conclusion and outlook --; References --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783111092737; 9783111319292; 9783111318912; 9783111319162; 9783111318240
• ISSN: 0167-4331
• DOI: 10.1515/9783111092737
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Andreas Kehl.

Island phenomena are a central topic in generative grammar, especially because of principled exceptions to these general extraction constraints. This volume investigates exceptional extractions from phrasal adjunct islands. It argues, based on experimental studies, that several factors identified in the previous literature are uninformative about locality conditions because they show effects in both extraction and non-extraction sentence forms. The volume develops a multifactorial model to account for these effects without appealing to universal extraction conditions and argues that the relative acceptability of the underlying proposition determines acceptability across sentence types.