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Deriving Island Constraints from Principles of Predication

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Island Constraints

Part of the book series: Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics ((SITP,volume 15))

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Ross’s (1968) thesis pointed out a number of poorly understood phenomena which have plagued the study of island constraints ever since. Specifically, certain non-structural factors are known to affect the grammaticality of island violations in subtle ways. These have traditionally been factored out of syntactic analyses with a view to providing an account of the core cases. Here I propose that these seemingly peripheral factors are in fact more central to an account of unbounded dependencies, and of island constraints in particular, than is commonly assumed.

This research was supported in part by NIH Grant HD22614. I am grateful to Claudia Brugman, Sandy Chung, Jeff Elman, Mary Hare, Yuki Kuroda, Marta Kutas, Mike Rochemont, and Cyma Van Petten for useful comments and suggestions on earlier drafts. Any remaining problems are my sole responsibility.

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Kluender, R. (1992). Deriving Island Constraints from Principles of Predication. 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_8

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