Extraction from subjects: Differences in acceptability depend on the discourse function of the construction
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DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104293
Abstract: In order to explain the unacceptability of certain long-distance dependencies - termed syntactic islands by Ross (1967) - syntacticians proposed constraints on long-distance dependencies which are universal and purely syntactic and thus not dependent on… read more here.
Keywords: subjects differences; extraction subjects; construction; extraction ... See more keywords