Extraposition and Parasitic Gaps

Abstract

Since Taraldsen (1981), Engdahl (1983), and Chomsky (1982), the “parasitic gap construction” has been discussed extensively in the literature. A typical example of this “construction” is shown in (1).

I would like to thank Andrew Barss, Carol Georgopoulos, Kyle Johnson, Robert May, Tim Stowell, and especially, Howard Lasnik for valuable comments and suggestions. The material in this paper was presented in the fall 1984 syntax seminar at USC, in the 1987 syntax seminar at Tohoku University, and in colloquia at Japan Woment’s University and Meiji Gakuin University. I would like to thank the participants, especially Joseph Aoun and Akira Kikuchi, for questions and comments that led to clarification of the arguments in this paper.