Unifying Adjunct Islands and Freezing Effects in Minimalist Grammars
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This paper presents a unified account of two well-known conditions on extraction domains: the “adjunct island” effect and “freezing” effects. Descriptively speaking, extraction is problematic out of adjoined constituents and out of constituents that have moved. I introduce a syntactic framework from which it emerges naturally that adjoined constituents are relevantly like constituents that have moved, unifying the two descriptive generalisations noted above.
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تاریخ انتشار 2010