Sponsored
![Adjunct Islands in English - (Studies in Generative Grammar [Sgg]) by Andreas Kehl (Paperback) - 1 of 1](https://target.scene7.com/is/image/Target/GUEST_3d272563-0d76-460d-89f8-25cacf163cfa?wid=300&hei=300&fmt=pjpeg)
Adjunct Islands in English - (Studies in Generative Grammar [Sgg]) by Andreas Kehl (Paperback)
In Stock
Sponsored
About this item
Highlights
- Island phenomena are a central topic in generative grammar, especially because of principled exceptions to these general extraction constraints.
- About the Author: Andreas Kehl, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany.
- 345 Pages
- Language + Art + Disciplines, Language Arts
- Series Name: Studies in Generative Grammar [Sgg]
Description
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 interrogatBook 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.
