Adjunct Islands in English - (Studies in Generative Grammar [Sgg]) by Andreas Kehl (Paperback)

About the Book

This volume investigates phrasal adjunct islands in English and offers experimental data showing that many judgment differences in the existing literature are unrelated to extraction because they can be observed in declaratives as well as interrogat

Book Synopsis

Island phenomena are a central topic in generative grammar, especially because of principled exceptions to these general extraction constraints. This volume investigates exceptional extractions from phrasal adjunct islands. It argues, based on experimental studies, that several factors identified in the previous literature are uninformative about locality conditions because they show effects in both extraction and non-extraction sentence forms. The volume develops a multifactorial model to account for these effects without appealing to universal extraction conditions and argues that the relative acceptability of the underlying proposition determines acceptability across sentence types.

About the Author

Andreas Kehl, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany.