Island Constraints

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vii

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2. Island Constraints: An Introduction

   • Helen Goodluck, Michael Rochemont

   Pages 1-33

3. No Variable is an Island: Computational Complexity and Island Constraints

   • Robert C. Berwick

   Pages 35-59

4. Parsing Complex NPs in French

   • Johanne S. Bourdages

   Pages 61-87

5. Resumptive Pronouns in Islands

   • Nomi Erteschik-Shir

   Pages 89-108

6. Islands, Learnability and the Lexicon

   • Janet Dean Fodor

   Pages 109-180

7. Adjunct Islands and Acquisition

   • Helen Goodluck, Michele Foley, Julie Sedivy

   Pages 181-194

8. Argument Extraction Out of Indirect Questions in French

   • Paul Hirschbühler, Daniel Valois

   Pages 195-222

9. Deriving Island Constraints from Principles of Predication

   • Robert Kluender

   Pages 223-258

10. Sentences as Islands: On the Boundedness of A′-Movement in American Sign Language

    • Diane Lillo-Martin

    Pages 259-274

11. Which Children Did They Show Obey Strong Crossover?

    • Dana McDaniel, Cecile McKee

    Pages 275-294

12. Processing Subject Extractions

    • Martin Pickering, Richard Shillcock

    Pages 295-320

13. Parsing with Grammar: Islands, Heads, and Garden Paths

    • Bradley L. Pritchett

    Pages 321-349

14. Island Constraints at Eighty

    • Clifton Pye, Hintat Cheung, Susan Kemper

    Pages 351-372

15. Bounding Rightward Ā-Dependencies

    • Michael Rochemont

    Pages 373-397

16. Sensitivity to Islands in an Aphasic Individual

    • Douglas Saddy

    Pages 399-417

17. The Processing Implementation of Syntactic Constraints: The Sentence Matching Debate

    • Laurie A. Stowe

    Pages 419-443

18. Subjacency Violations and Empty Categories in Second Language Acquisition

    • Lydia White

    Pages 445-464

19. Back Matter

    Pages 465-480

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constraints', which serve to block the association of antecedent to gap under specific syntactic conditions. Of the restrictions identified by Ross and others, the ones we will discuss here are the Complex NP Constraint, exemplified with a relative clause in (3b) and with a nominal complement in (4a), the Subject and wh Island Conditions (Chomsky, 1973) in (4b, c) respectively, and the Adjunct Island Condi­ tion (see Huang, 1982's Condition on Extraction Domain), illustrated in (4d, e). (4) (a) *John, Mary made the claim that Sally plans to recommend_ for ajob. John, Mary claimed that Sally plans to recommend _ for a job. As for John, Mary heard the rumor that Sally intends to marry him. (b) *John, an article about _just appeared in the newspaper. As for John, an article about him just appeared in the news­ paper. (c) *Bill, I wonder who likes_. As for Bill, I wonder who likes him. (d) *The heat, we left early because of _. As for the heat, we left early because of it. (e) *The money, I lied so that I could keep_. As for the money, I lied so that I could keep it.

• Index
• Tempora
• grammar
• language
• language acquisition
• pronouns
• subject
• syntactic

• Department of Linguistics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

  Helen Goodluck

• Department of Linguistics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

  Michael Rochemont

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