Extraction from subjects: some remarks on Chomsky’s On phases

Broekhuis, Hans; Corver, Norbert; Huybregts, Riny; Kleinhenz, Ursula; Köster, Jan

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“…Broekhuis (2006) claims that apparent cases of PPfromDP extraction in exam ples like (10) are fake, and that the PP is directly generated in situ in the clause periphery as "an independent adverbial phrase" (2006: 62). He argues that there are important asymmetries between PPs internal to DP and PPs external to DP, and that these argue against treating DPexternal PPs as extracted from DPs, and in favour of generating them in situ (2006: 62).…”

Section: On Thematic Effectsmentioning

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Deconstructing the Subject Condition in terms of cumulative constraint violation

Haegeman¹,

Jiménez-Fernández

Radford

2014

The Linguistic Review

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Chomsky (1973) attributes the island status of nominal subjects to the Subject Condition, a constraint specific to subjects. English and Spanish are inter esting languages for the comparative study of extraction from subjects, because subjects in English are predominantly preverbal, whereas in Spanish they can be either preverbal or postverbal. In this paper we argue that the islandhood of sub ject DPs in both English and Spanish is not categorical. The degradation associ ated with extraction from subjects must be attributed to the interplay of a range of more general constraints which are not specific to subjects. We argue that the interaction of these constraints has a cumulative effect whereby the more constraints that are violated, the higher the degree of degradation that results. We also argue that some speakers have a greater tolerance for constraint viola tions than others, which would account for widespread interspeaker judgment variability.

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Section: On Thematic Effectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Deconstructing the Subject Condition in terms of cumulative constraint violation

Haegeman¹,

Jiménez-Fernández

Radford

2014

The Linguistic Review

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“…To give a few more specific examples: Whereas Cinque (1990) and Sternefeld (1991b) argue that SpecC is invariably a barrier (even if the item moved to this position is transparent in situ), Chomsky (1986a) and Lasnik & Saito (1992) assume that SpecC is transparent for extraction (even if the item in SpecC is a barrier in situ). Similarly, Browning (1991), Collins (1994), Chomsky (1995), Rezáč (2004), Broekhuis (2005), and Boeckx & Grohmann (2007) (among many others) postulate that SpecT is a barrier; but Chomsky (2008), Gallego & Uriagereka (2006) (see chapter 2), and Neeleman & van de Koot (2010) suggest that this is not (or not always) the case. As for SpecC, Chomsky (1986a) bases his assumption that SpecC is transparent on the Spanish data in (28-ab) (from unpublished work by Esther Torrego), where it looks as though movement from a wh-moved subject is possible even though the subject is a barrier in situ.…”

Section: Freezing Effectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Constraints on Displacement

Müller

2011

Language Faculty and Beyond

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This monograph sets out to derive the effects of standard constraints on displacement like the Minimal Link Condition (MLC) and the Condition on Extraction Domain (CED) from more basic principles in a minimalist approach. Assuming that movement via phase edges is possible only in the presence of edge features on phase heads, simple restrictions can be introduced on when such edge features can be inserted derivationally. The resulting system is shown to correctly predict MLC/CED effects (including certain exceptions, like intervention without c-command and melting). In addition, it derives operator-island effects, a restriction on extraction from verb-second clauses, and island repair by ellipsis. The approach presupposes that syntactic operations apply in a fixed order: Timing emerges as crucial. Thus, the book provides new arguments for a strictly derivational organization of syntax. Accordingly, it should be of interest not only to all syntacticians working on islands, but more generally to all scholars interested in the overall organization of grammar.

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“…He argues that the determining property is the underlying base position and that the verb's argument structure is much cross-linguistic evidence for this view : (6) shows this for Spanish, (7) for Norwegian, (8) for Icelandic, (9) for Danish, and (10) determines whether extraction is licit (due to properties of his phase analysis). I will not discuss this analysis, as several authors have illustrated that it does not work crosslinguistically (Broekhuis 2005, Gallego & Uriagereka 2007, Lohndal 2007a, Mayr 2007. Furthermore, Starke (2001) and Abels (2008) (German) scandal caused ' The first part of this film caused a bit scandal last year.'…”

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Freezing effects and objects

Lohndal

2010

J. Ling.

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This paper is an investigation of freezing effects, that is, cases where an element (e.g. an object or a subject, or an element within it) is unable to move from a certain structural position. An account of the most prominent properties of freezing in Norwegian is followed by a comparative study of primarily English and Norwegian indirect objects, with important consequences for the general approach to indirect objects. Although recent analyses capture central properties of indirect objects, they fall short of accounting for freezing properties, seen here in terms of agreement properties, most notably Case agreement. It is shown that both subjects and indirect objects disallow sub-extraction in both English and Norwegian ; however, unlike English, Norwegian allows the indirect object to A-bar move. This relates to the question of whether Case is structural or inherent. As such, this paper offers a new argument in favor of Case as a central ingredient in deriving freezing effects. , and two anonymous JL referees. Thanks are also due to Cedric Boeckx for his support and constructive suggestions, and especially to Caroline Heycock, Norbert Hornstein, Howard Lasnik and Juan Uriagereka for all their valuable comments and for ensuring that my writing is much clearer than it would otherwise have been.[2] This is a construction similar to the was für construction in many Germanic languages.

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Extraction from subjects: some remarks on Chomsky’s On phases

Cited by 30 publications

References 5 publications

Deconstructing the Subject Condition in terms of cumulative constraint violation

Deconstructing the Subject Condition in terms of cumulative constraint violation

Constraints on Displacement

Freezing effects and objects

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