Research Catalog

Title

Experimental syntax and island effects / edited by Jon Sprouse and Norbert Hornstein.

Publication

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

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Additional Authors

• Sprouse, Jon, 1980-
• Hornstein, Norbert

Description

x, 421 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subject

• Grammar, Comparative and general > Syntax
• Psycholinguistics
• Acceptability (Linguistics)
• Creativity (Linguistics)
• Linguistics > Methodology
• Linguistics > Methodology
• Psycholinguistics
• Syntax
• Insel

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Machine generated contents note: 1.Experimental syntax and island effects: Toward a comprehensive theory of islands / Norbert Hornstein -- pt. 1 Global issues in the investigation of island effects -- 2.Deriving competing predictions from grammatical approaches and reductionist approaches to island effects / Colin Phillips -- 3.Islands in the grammar? Standards of evidence / Ivan A. Sag -- 4.On the nature of island constraints I: Language processing and reductionist accounts / Colin Phillips -- 5.Computational models of acquisition for islands / Jon Sprouse -- 6.On the nature of island constraints II: Language learning and innateness / Colin Phillips -- pt. 2 Specific issues in the investigation of island effects -- 7.Memory mechanisms for wh-dependency formation and their implications for islandhood / Matthew W. Wagers -- 8.What's negative about negative islands? A re-evaluation of extraction from weak island contexts / Simone Gieselman --
• Contents note continued: 9.On the structural nature of island constraints / Norbert Hornstein -- 10.Backgrounded constituents cannot be "extracted" / Adele E. Goldberg -- 11.Microvariation in islands? / Norbert Hornstein -- 12.Subject islands in German revisited / Johannes Jurka -- 13.Subject islands are different / Anne Sturgeon -- 14.What vs. who and which: Kind-denoting fillers and the complexity of whether-islands / Frank Keller -- 15.Resumption in English / Dustin Heestand -- 16.The island (in)sensitivity of sluicing and sprouting / Michael Walsh Dickey.

ISBN

• 9781107008700 (hardback)
• 1107008700 (hardback)

LCCN

^^2013012163

OCLC

• 841198140
• SCSB-12701330

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library