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Restrictions of different degrees on extractions from indirect questions (IQs) can be observed in many languages. So, while Italian (la) is fine, its English translation (lb) is generally treated as deviant to some degree:1
Research for this paper was partially funded by a doctoral SSHRC fellowship awarded to Daniel Valois and by SSHRCC Grant 410-89-1181.
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Hirschbühler, P., Valois, D. (1992). Argument Extraction Out of Indirect Questions in French. In: Goodluck, H., Rochemont, M. (eds) Island Constraints. Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics, vol 15. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1980-3_7
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