Extraction from subjects: Differences in acceptability depend on the discourse function of the construction

© 2020 Elsevier B.V. In order to explain the unacceptability of certain long-distance dependencies – termed syntactic islands by Ross (1967) – syntacticians proposed constraints on long-distance dependencies which are universal and purely syntactic and thus not dependent on the meaning of the constr...

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Main Authors: Abeillé, Anne, Hemforth, Barbara, Winckel, Elodie, Gibson, Edward A
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier BV 2022
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/138860.2