This outstanding resource for students offers a step-by-step, practical introduction to English
syntax and syntactic principles, as developed by Chomsky over the past 15 years. Assuming …

In order to explain the unacceptability of certain long-distance dependencies–termed
syntactic islands by Ross (1967)–syntacticians proposed constraints on long-distance …

The goal of this article is to explore the utility of experimental syntax techniques in the
investigation of syntactic variation. To that end, we applied the factorial definition of island …

This book is about one of the most intriguing features of human communication systems: the
fact that words that go together in meaning can occur arbitrarily far away from each other. In …

In this article we argue against the proposal that island violations are repaired by ellipsis.
Building on Merchant (2001), we argue that ellipsis sites allow for a number of non …

Drawing on vast amounts of new data from live, unscripted radio and TV broadcasts, and the
internet, this is a brilliant and original analysis of colloquial English, revealing unusual and …

On the surface, bi-and multilingualism would seem to be an ideal context for exploring
questions of typological proximity. The obvious intuition is that the more closely related two …

The article deduces a modified version of the traditional ban on movement out of moved
elements that provides a new perspective on it. Under the proposed analysis, the problem …

A parasitic gap construction typically occurs when an otherwise illicit gap in an island is
ameliorated by a gap elsewhere in the sentence. In this paper, we consider the relationship …

This dissertation explores the relation between the notion of subjecthood and syntactic
ergativity through the lens of West Circassian (or Adyghe; of the Northwest Caucasian …