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Accusative resumptive clitic strategy in Spanish wh-islands

open access: yesAccusative resumptive clitic strategy in Spanish wh-islands
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On Argument-Adjunct Asymmetry of Wh-Extraction out of Wh-Island

open access: yesOn Argument-Adjunct Asymmetry of Wh-Extraction out of Wh-Island
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An Analysis of the Wh-Island Effect in Extracting Postverbal NPs

open access: yesAn Analysis of the Wh-Island Effect in Extracting Postverbal NPs
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A processing-based account of subliminal wh-island effects

Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, 2018
Wh-island effects are notorious for their cross-linguistic variation. However, experimental syntax studies observed super-additive wh-island effects in some languages which were previously argued to be immune to them. In four acceptability judgment experiments, we investigate the origin of super-additivity in acceptable wh-islands, so-called ...
Maayan Keshev, Aya Meltzer-Asscher
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LF WH-Islands and the Minimal Scope Principle

Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, 1999
The present paper argues that Nishigauchi's (1990) argument for an LF Subjacency Condition is incorrect. It is argued that the relevant facts should be accounted for in terms of a condition on LF representations, which I call the Minimal Scope Principle.
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Wh-island Effects in Chinese

This book examines three controversial generalizations concerning wh-island effects in Chinese: argument and adjunct asymmetry, subject and object asymmetry, and D-linked and non-D-linked asymmetry. Experiments under the factorial definition of island effects reveal that: (1) both argument and adjunct wh-in-situ are sensitive to the wh-island ...
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Genomic islands in pathogenic and environmental microorganisms

Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2004
Ulrich Dobrindt, Ute Hentschel
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