Recent Advances in Research on Island Phenomena / / by Anne Mette Nyvad and Ken Ramshøj Christensen (editors).

• TeilnehmendeR: Nyvad, Anne Mette,; Christensen, Ken Ramshøj,
• Place / Publishing House: [Place of publication not identified] : : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute,, 2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (300 pages)

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 the Mainland Scandinavian languages have continuously been dismissed as illusory and alternative accounts for the underlying structure of such cases have been proposed. However, since such extractions are pervasive in spoken Mainland Scandinavian, these languages may not have been given the attention that they deserve in the syntax literature. In addition, recent research suggests that extraction from certain types of island structures in English might not be as unacceptable as previously assumed either. These findings break new empirical ground, question perceived knowledge, and may indeed have substantial ramifications for syntactic theory. This volume provides an overview of state-of-the-art research on island phenomena primarily in English and the Scandinavian languages, focusing on how languages compare to English, with the aim to shed new light on the nature of island constraints from different theoretical perspectives. Read less.

Table of Contents

Preface to "Recent Advances in Research on Island Phenomena" vii -- Recent Advances in Research on Island Phenomena 1 -- Extraction and Pronoun Preposing in Scandinavian 7 -- Extraction from Relative Clauses in Icelandic and Swedish: A Parallel Investigation 29 -- Island Extractions in the Wild: A Corpus Study of Adjunct and Relative Clause Islands in Danish and English 55 -- Too True to Be Good? The Non-Uniformity of Extraction from Adjunct Clauses in English 81 -- Extraction from English RCs and Cross-Linguistic Similarities in the Environments That Facilitate Extraction 107 -- Comparing Island Effects for Different Dependency Types in Norwegian 143 -- The Radical Unacceptability Hypothesis: Accounting for Unacceptability without Universal Constraints 169 -- Extraction from Present Participle Adjuncts: The Relevance of the Corresponding Declaratives 203 -- On the Nature of Syntactic 235 -- Sources of Discreteness and Gradience in Island Effects 265.