Thursday: 5 July
Theories of Islandhood
Competence and Performance. Filler-Gap Dependencies. Island
Phenomena. Theories of Islandhood in Generative Grammar.
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Reading:
- Ross, John R. 1967. Constraints on Variables in
Syntax. Doctoral dissertation, MIT. [Published in 1986 as
Infinite
Syntax. Norwood, N.J.: ABLEX.] Excerpted in Gilbert Harman (ed.)
On Noam Chomsky
(.pdf file)
- Szabolcsi, Anna. 2002. Strong and Weak Islands.
Available HERE.
Further Reading:
- Huddleston, Rodney, Geoffrey K. Pullum et al. 2002. The
Cambridge
Grammar of the English Language. Cambridge: CUP. Pp. 1079-1096.
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Sag, Ivan A. and Thomas Wasow. to appear.
Performance-Compatible Competence Grammar. In
Robert Borsley and Kersti Borjars, eds. Non-Transformational Syntax.
Cambridge: Blackwells. (.pdf file)
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