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Investigating the relationship between individual differences and island sensitivity
Glossa, 2020 It is well-attested that native speakers tend to give low acceptability ratings to sentences that involve movement from within islands, yet the source of island effects remains an active debate.
Alison Gabriele +4 more
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Towards an Etiology of Adjunct Islands
Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2004 This paper examines the connection between certain island phenomena for long distance movement, and matching island conditions on focus projection. Based on a description of focus projection that Lisa Selkirk and Michael Rochemont formulate, I take the ...
Kyle Johnson
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Extraction from Present Participle Adjuncts: The Relevance of the Corresponding Declaratives
Languages, 2022 In this article, I will argue that many of the theoretical approaches to extraction from participle adjunct islands suffer from the fact that the focus of investigation lies on perceived grammaticality differences in interrogative structures.
Andreas Kehl
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Languages, 2022 In the first two decades following Ross’s Constraints on Variables in Syntax, a picture emerged in which the Mainland Scandinavian (MS) languages appeared to systematically evade some of the locality constraints proposed by Ross, including the relative ...
Jake W. Vincent +2 more
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SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION OF WH-MOVEMENT BY MACEDONIAN LEARNERS OF ENGLISH [PDF]
Studii de gramatică contrastivă, 2013 The overall aim of this paper is to test the strong predictions of the Full Transfer/Full Access Hypothesis of second language acquisition. The general question addressed by the study is whether there is full transfer from the first language (L1) when it
Sonja KITANOVSKA-KIMOVSKA
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Island Constraints and Adjunct & Argument Asymmetry in Turkish
Dilbilim Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2016 Due to the adjunct & argument asymmetry in Turkish, the interpretation of argument wh-words within island structures does not result in ungrammaticality while that of wh-adjuncts results in ungrammaticality (Özsoy 1996, Arslan 1999, Görgülü 2006, Çakır ...
Sinan Çakır
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 This study reflects on the meaning of the results of a self-paced grammaticality judgment task that tested island configurations (with gaps and resumptive pronouns) in L1 and L2 speakers of Spanish.
Sílvia Perpiñán
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Exclamative Wh-Phrases as Positive Polarity Items
Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2008 This paper studies the island effects induced by negation in exclamative sentences. In order to explain this phenomenon, I focus on the interaction between exclamative wh-phrases and negation, showing that negation can appear in exclamative sentences ...
Raquel González Rodríguez
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Absence of Clausal Islands in Shupamem
Languages, 2023 Decades-long research on islands has led to the conclusion that island constraints are candidates for language universals. A recent surge in research on islandhood in African languages has revealed some would-be island configurations that are transparent
Hagay Schurr +6 more
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Wh-Island Constraint in Turkish
Dilbilim Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2017 The paper proposesthat wh-island constraint does not hold in Turkish, at least for theconstructions that contain more than one wh-phrase. The grammaticallyproblematic constructions that have been uttered as wh-island violations inprevious studies have been claimed to be weak Complex DP Island violations. TheDP that c-commands the lower CP constitutes a
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