Phases, Strong Islands, and Computational Nesting
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In this paper we reconsider the connectedness effect discussed by Kayne (1983), and illustrated in the examples (1)-(3). Kayne observed that in VO languages, left branch constituents are strong islands for extraction; however, an illegitimate gap inside a left branch island can be rescued by another gap embedded in a lower right branch constituent. The examples in (1)-(2) illustrate preverbal subject islands, and (3) a small clause subject island: while in the (a) examples, extraction from the left-branch subject is impossible, in the (b) examples, the illegitimate gap is followed by a legitimate gap on a right branch and this creates a grammatical configuration.
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