Extraction from Present Participle Adjuncts: The Relevance of the Corresponding Declaratives
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. Following approaches which make an explicit connection be...
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| description | 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. Following approaches which make an explicit connection between extraction asymmetries and properties of the underlying proposition, I will argue that there is good evidence for the existence of similar differences in declarative adjunct constructions which can explain most of the grammaticality patterns observed for interrogatives. A crucial distinction to the majority of previous theories is the focus on acceptability rather than grammaticality, and the assumption that acceptability in declaratives is determined by a variety of semantic and syntactic complexity factors which do not influence how strongly extraction degrades the structure. This line of argumentation is more compatible with approaches to island phenomena that explain the low acceptability of some extractions by independent effects such as processing complexity and discourse function instead of syntactic principles blocking the extraction. I will also discuss a partially weighted, multifactorial model for the acceptability of declarative and interrogative participle adjunct constructions, which explains the judgment patterns in the literature without the need for additional, complex licensing conditions for extraction. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-36173ae4b1894b9d8227b64dce210e432023-11-23T17:20:26ZengMDPI AGLanguages2226-471X2022-07-017317710.3390/languages7030177Extraction from Present Participle Adjuncts: The Relevance of the Corresponding DeclarativesAndreas Kehl0English Department, Universität Tübingen, Wilhelmstraße 50, 72074 Tübingen, GermanyIn 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. Following approaches which make an explicit connection between extraction asymmetries and properties of the underlying proposition, I will argue that there is good evidence for the existence of similar differences in declarative adjunct constructions which can explain most of the grammaticality patterns observed for interrogatives. A crucial distinction to the majority of previous theories is the focus on acceptability rather than grammaticality, and the assumption that acceptability in declaratives is determined by a variety of semantic and syntactic complexity factors which do not influence how strongly extraction degrades the structure. This line of argumentation is more compatible with approaches to island phenomena that explain the low acceptability of some extractions by independent effects such as processing complexity and discourse function instead of syntactic principles blocking the extraction. I will also discuss a partially weighted, multifactorial model for the acceptability of declarative and interrogative participle adjunct constructions, which explains the judgment patterns in the literature without the need for additional, complex licensing conditions for extraction.https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/7/3/177adjunct islands<i>wh</i>-extractionlocalitypresent participlegradient acceptabilityacceptability model |
| spellingShingle | Andreas Kehl Extraction from Present Participle Adjuncts: The Relevance of the Corresponding Declaratives Languages adjunct islands <i>wh</i>-extraction locality present participle gradient acceptability acceptability model |
| title | Extraction from Present Participle Adjuncts: The Relevance of the Corresponding Declaratives |
| title_full | Extraction from Present Participle Adjuncts: The Relevance of the Corresponding Declaratives |
| title_fullStr | Extraction from Present Participle Adjuncts: The Relevance of the Corresponding Declaratives |
| title_full_unstemmed | Extraction from Present Participle Adjuncts: The Relevance of the Corresponding Declaratives |
| title_short | Extraction from Present Participle Adjuncts: The Relevance of the Corresponding Declaratives |
| title_sort | extraction from present participle adjuncts the relevance of the corresponding declaratives |
| topic | adjunct islands <i>wh</i>-extraction locality present participle gradient acceptability acceptability model |
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