Similarity of wh-phrases and acceptability variation in wh-islands [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2016 In wh-questions that form a syntactic dependency between the fronted wh-phrase and its thematic position, acceptability is severely degraded when the dependency crosses another wh-phrase.
Emily eAtkinson +3 more
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Wh-islands in degree questions: A semantic approach
Semantics and Pragmatics, 2011 It is proposed that wh-islands with degree questions are unacceptable because they cannot be given a most informative true answer. Wh-islands thus are shown to be similar to other cases of weak islands which have been argued to result from Maximization ...
Márta Abrusán
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Remarks on labeling theory and the experimental study of wh-islands
IsoglossThe goal of this squib is to draw attention to the way experimental research on wh-islands can inform the discussion on the labeling approach to movement (Chomsky 2013 and related work).
Ivan Ortega-Santos
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Island-sensitivity of two different interpretations of why in Chinese
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 It has been assumed that the wh-element weishenme “why” in Chinese has two distinct interpretations: a reason reading, which typically yields yinwei “because”-answers, and a purpose reading, which typically triggers weile “in order to”-answers.
Nayoun Kim, Ziying Li, Jiayi Lu
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A-bar Dependency, Wh-scrambling in Korean, and Referential Hierarchy
Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 1996 There is an argument-adjunct asymmetry in wh-extractions from weak islands. Some previous approaches to the issue concur that the reason why argument wh-phrases may create long distance A' dependencies across the islands is due to their referential ...
Lee, Gunsoo
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The island/non-island distinction in long-distance extraction: Evidence from L2 acceptability
Glossa, 2022 Experimental studies regularly find that extraction out of an embedded clause (“long-distance extraction”) results in a substantial degradation in acceptability but that the degradation is much greater when the embedded clause is an island structure.
Boyoung Kim, Grant Goodall
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Inclusion vs. Exclusion. Overcoming Undemocratic Contextual Issues in Integrating Communities to Heritage Management and Preservation [PDF]
Plural: History, Culture, Society, 2020 The article presents the retrospective of various initiatives of engaging local communities in heritage conservation and management taking place in Russia over the last decades.
Anna Gaynutdinova
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Syntactic constraints and individual differences in native and non-native processing of wh-movement
Frontiers in Psychology, 2016 There is a debate as to whether second language (L2) learners show qualitatively similar processing profiles as native speakers or whether L2 learners are restricted in their ability to use syntactic information during online processing.
Adrienne eJohnson +3 more
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Italian Factive islands are not ‘that weak’
Isogloss, 2023 Long-distance dependencies are a major property of human language, deriving from the successive application of movement operations across sentences.
Giorgio Carella +2 more
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Focus-feature and wh-feature in the light of pied piping behavior in Hungarian
LingBaW, 2020 This paper presents the findings of two experiments on pied-piping by a prenominal adjunct in Hungarian focus- and wh-constructions. According to Webelhuth (1992) and Cable (2010), pied-piping from adjunct islands is prohibited.
Júlia Keresztes
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