Cross-Linguistic Sensitivity to the Extraction Path


Many languages exhibit phenomena that are sensitive to the presence or absence of an extraction domain. Thus, as this week's readings demonstrate, there are inverted clauses, particular complementizers, in fact lexical, syntactic, and even tonological phenomena that are restricted in this way, i.e. so as to appear only on the path separating a filler and its gap.

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