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

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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2023]
©2023
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG] , 152
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XV, 330 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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