Unbounded Dependency Constructions : Theoretical and Experimental Perspectives.

This book examines the nature, creation, and comprehension of constructions in which words that go together in meaning occur arbitrarily far away from each other. It provides a detailed survey of the factors responsible for their creation and comprehension, alongside new experimental evidence and su...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Chaves, Rui P.
Other Authors:	Putnam, Michael T.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford : Oxford University Press USA - OSO, 2021.
Series:	Oxford Surveys in Syntax and Morphology Ser.
Subjects:	Extraction (Linguistics) Extraction (Linguistique) Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Cover
Unbounded Dependency Constructions: Theoretical and Experimental Perspectives
Copyright
Contents
General Preface
Preface
List of Figures
List of Abbreviations
1 Introduction
1.1 Unbounded dependency constructions
1.2 Grammatical constraints
1.3 Grammatical theories
1.4 Real-time processing
1.5 Overview
2 Extraction types
2.1 Overview of UDCs
2.1.1 Interrogative
2.1.2 Declarative
2.1.2.1 Topicalization
2.1.2.2 Focus Movement
2.1.3 Subordinate
2.1.3.1 Relatives
2.1.3.2 Clefts
2.1.3.3 Comparatives
2.1.3.4 Dangling modifiers
2.1.3.5 Missing object constructions
2.2 Filler-gap dependency types
2.2.1 Singleton
2.2.1.1 Overlapping
2.2.1.2 Chaining
2.2.2 Convergent
2.2.3 Cumulative
2.3 Filler-gap mismatches
2.4 Summary
3 Extraction constraints
3.1 The source ambiguity problem
3.2 Island phenomena
3.2.1 NP Constraint
3.2.2 Specified Subject Constraint
3.2.3 Complex NP Constraint
3.2.4 Bridge verb phenomena
3.2.4.1 Manner-of-speaking islands
3.2.4.2 Factive islands
3.2.5 Coordinate Structure Constraint
3.2.6 Subject Constraint
3.2.6.1 Parasitic subject-embedded gaps
3.2.6.2 Sentential subject constraint
3.2.7 Adjunct Constraint
3.2.7.1 Parasitic Adjunct-embedded gaps
3.2.7.2 Tensed adjunct island violations
3.2.8 Negative islands
3.2.9 Wh-islands
3.2.10 Complementizer Constraint
3.2.11 Frozen Structure Constraint
3.2.12 Left Branch Condition
3.3 Resumptive UDCs
3.3.1 Grammatical resumption
3.3.2 Constraint-avoidance resumption
3.3.3 Processing resumption
3.4 Islands in other dependencies?
3.4.1 Ellipsis
3.4.2 Quantifier scope
3.4.3 Interrogative scope
3.5 Summary
4 Movement-based approaches
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Merge and Move
4.2.1 The Strict Cycle
4.2.2 Multiple-gap UDCs
4.2.3 Improper Movement
4.3 Island constraints
4.3.1 CED effects
4.3.2 Wh-islands
4.4 Psychological plausibility
4.4.1 Three views of movement
4.4.1.1 The extensionist view
4.4.1.2 The literalist view
4.4.1.3 The formalist view
4.5 Summary
5 Non-movement-based approaches
5.1 Gazdar's (1981) phrase-structure model
5.2 A constructional HPSG approach
5.2.1 Lexical constructions
5.2.2 Phrasal constructions
5.2.3 Constructional gap propagation
5.2.3.1 Multiple-gap UDCs
5.2.4 Predicted island effects
5.3 Models of processing
5.4 Summary
6 Experience-based effects
6.1 Setting the stage
6.2 Experimental evidence
6.2.1 Adaptation in extraction from subject NPs
6.2.1.1 Methods
6.2.1.2 Results
6.2.1.3 Discussion
6.2.2 Adaptation extraction from clausal subjects
6.2.2.1 Methods
6.2.2.2 Results
6.2.2.3 Discussion
6.2.3 Relevance effects in object subextraction
6.2.3.1 Methods
6.2.3.2 Results
6.2.4 Event-based effects in phrasal adverbials