Grant Goodall
Biographic Data
| ID | 739200 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Grant Goodall |
| GIVEN NAMES | Grant |
| FAMILY NAME | Goodall |
| SIGNATURE | GOODALL G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California San Diego |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4652-9009 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Relative clauses are islands in Japanese
Relative clauses have traditionally been thought to be islands for extraction, but counterexamples have long been noted. Here we examine one such counterexample, “double relatives” in Japanese, in which an element is relativized from inside another relative clause. These structures are commonly thought to be possible, because they allow for a derivation in which there is no extraction out of the relative clause, but we argue, based on three sente…
The island/non-island distinction in long-distance extraction
Experimental studies regularly find that extraction out of an embedded clause (“long-distance extraction”) results in a substantial degradation in acceptability but that the degradation is much greater when the embedded clause is an island structure. We explore these two facts by means of a series of acceptability experiments with L1 and L2 speakers of English. We find that the L2 speakers show greater degradation than L1 speakers for extraction …
Constructed Languages
Linguistic research focuses primarily on the thousands of naturally occurring languages, but there are also languages that have been consciously created by individuals. There are four main types of these constructed languages. First, so-called philosophical languages were created in the seventeenth century as a way to better capture the reality of the world. Second, many international auxiliary languages were constructed in the late nineteenth an…
The source of the that -trace effect
Recent approaches to the that-trace phenomenon in English include syntactic analyses based on the principle of Anti-locality and a sentence production analysis based on the Principle of End Weight. These analyses have many similarities, but they differ in their predictions for second language (L2) speakers. In an Anti-locality analysis, we expect L2 speakers to show a pattern very similar to first language (L1) speakers, with substantial degradat…
Filler–gap dependencies and the remnant–correlate dependency in backward sprouting
The relationship between the wh -remnant and the null correlate in the type of ellipsis known as backward sprouting is superficially almost identical to the relation between a wh -filler and a gap in a wh -question. In both cases, there is a dependency between the wh -phrase and a later null element. We conduct a sentence acceptability experiment to test whether the remnant–correlate dependency in backward sprouting exhibits two well-known proper…
Inversion and finiteness in Spanish and English
There is evidence to suggest that finiteness marking on verbs and subject-auxiliary inversion are related phenomena in English. In contrast, in Spanish there is evidence consistent with finiteness marking on verbs and the apparently similar phenomenon of subject-verb inversion being unrelated. In both cases, most of the evidence adduced comes from adult acceptability judgments and other adult psycholinguistic work. In the present article, we pres…
Contraction
Contraction is a descriptive term for phenomena in which one word is reduced and apparently affixed to another. Two types of contraction have been particularly prominent in the syntax literature. The first, wanna ‐contraction, refers to the use of wanna in place of want to . There are a number of interesting ways in which wanna ‐contraction appears to rely on aspects of the syntactic structure. The most celebrated of these is that contraction is …
Islands and Non-islands in Native and Heritage Korean
To a large extent, island phenomena are cross-linguistically invariable, but English and Korean present some striking differences in this domain. English has wh-movement and Korean does not, and while both languages show sensitivity to wh-islands, only English has island effects for adjunct clauses. Given this complex set of differences, one might expect Korean/English bilinguals, and especially heritage Korean speakers (i.e., early bilinguals wh…
Syntactic Satiation and the Inversion Effect in English and SpanishWh-Questions
Both English and Spanish exhibit an inversion effect inwh-questions: a verbal element must appear to the left of the subject. Analyses differ, however, as to whether this effect is due to similar syntactic mechanisms in the two languages or not. The phenomenon of judgment satiation, in which certain unacceptable sentence types improve upon repeated exposure, is used here to provide new evidence addressing this issue. It is shown that unacceptable…
Coordination
Accusative case in passives
The standard explanation for Ν Ρ movement in the passive construction has been that the N P must move into the nominative position because no accusative case is available. This paper examines the implications for this view of some double-object constructions in Mandarin Chinese and English that are ungrammatical as active clauses but improve significantly as passives. These facts are unexpected under the standard view of passives, but I suggest t…
Contemporary Research in Romance Linguistics
Causatives and accomplishments
On case and the passive morpheme
X'-internal word order in Mandarin Chinese and universal grammar
Parallel structures in syntax
Parallel structures in syntax
Syntactic Satiation and the Inversion Effect in English and SpanishWh-Questions
Both English and Spanish exhibit an inversion effect inwh-questions: a verbal element must appear to the left of the subject. Analyses differ, however, as to whether this effect is due to similar syntactic mechanisms in the two languages or not. The phenomenon of judgment satiation, in which certain unacceptable sentence types improve upon repeated exposure, is used here to provide new evidence addressing this issue. It is shown that unacceptable…
X'-internal word order in Mandarin Chinese and universal grammar
The source of the that -trace effect
Recent approaches to the that-trace phenomenon in English include syntactic analyses based on the principle of Anti-locality and a sentence production analysis based on the Principle of End Weight. These analyses have many similarities, but they differ in their predictions for second language (L2) speakers. In an Anti-locality analysis, we expect L2 speakers to show a pattern very similar to first language (L1) speakers, with substantial degradat…
Accusative case in passives
The standard explanation for Ν Ρ movement in the passive construction has been that the N P must move into the nominative position because no accusative case is available. This paper examines the implications for this view of some double-object constructions in Mandarin Chinese and English that are ungrammatical as active clauses but improve significantly as passives. These facts are unexpected under the standard view of passives, but I suggest t…
On case and the passive morpheme
Parallel structures in syntax
X'-internal word order in Mandarin Chinese and universal grammar
On case and the passive morpheme
Causatives and accomplishments
Contemporary Research in Romance Linguistics
Accusative case in passives
The standard explanation for Ν Ρ movement in the passive construction has been that the N P must move into the nominative position because no accusative case is available. This paper examines the implications for this view of some double-object constructions in Mandarin Chinese and English that are ungrammatical as active clauses but improve significantly as passives. These facts are unexpected under the standard view of passives, but I suggest t…
Coordination
Syntactic Satiation and the Inversion Effect in English and SpanishWh-Questions
Both English and Spanish exhibit an inversion effect inwh-questions: a verbal element must appear to the left of the subject. Analyses differ, however, as to whether this effect is due to similar syntactic mechanisms in the two languages or not. The phenomenon of judgment satiation, in which certain unacceptable sentence types improve upon repeated exposure, is used here to provide new evidence addressing this issue. It is shown that unacceptable…
Islands and Non-islands in Native and Heritage Korean
To a large extent, island phenomena are cross-linguistically invariable, but English and Korean present some striking differences in this domain. English has wh-movement and Korean does not, and while both languages show sensitivity to wh-islands, only English has island effects for adjunct clauses. Given this complex set of differences, one might expect Korean/English bilinguals, and especially heritage Korean speakers (i.e., early bilinguals wh…
Contraction
Contraction is a descriptive term for phenomena in which one word is reduced and apparently affixed to another. Two types of contraction have been particularly prominent in the syntax literature. The first, wanna ‐contraction, refers to the use of wanna in place of want to . There are a number of interesting ways in which wanna ‐contraction appears to rely on aspects of the syntactic structure. The most celebrated of these is that contraction is …
Inversion and finiteness in Spanish and English
There is evidence to suggest that finiteness marking on verbs and subject-auxiliary inversion are related phenomena in English. In contrast, in Spanish there is evidence consistent with finiteness marking on verbs and the apparently similar phenomenon of subject-verb inversion being unrelated. In both cases, most of the evidence adduced comes from adult acceptability judgments and other adult psycholinguistic work. In the present article, we pres…
The island/non-island distinction in long-distance extraction
Experimental studies regularly find that extraction out of an embedded clause (“long-distance extraction”) results in a substantial degradation in acceptability but that the degradation is much greater when the embedded clause is an island structure. We explore these two facts by means of a series of acceptability experiments with L1 and L2 speakers of English. We find that the L2 speakers show greater degradation than L1 speakers for extraction …
Constructed Languages
Linguistic research focuses primarily on the thousands of naturally occurring languages, but there are also languages that have been consciously created by individuals. There are four main types of these constructed languages. First, so-called philosophical languages were created in the seventeenth century as a way to better capture the reality of the world. Second, many international auxiliary languages were constructed in the late nineteenth an…
The source of the that -trace effect
Recent approaches to the that-trace phenomenon in English include syntactic analyses based on the principle of Anti-locality and a sentence production analysis based on the Principle of End Weight. These analyses have many similarities, but they differ in their predictions for second language (L2) speakers. In an Anti-locality analysis, we expect L2 speakers to show a pattern very similar to first language (L1) speakers, with substantial degradat…
Filler–gap dependencies and the remnant–correlate dependency in backward sprouting
The relationship between the wh -remnant and the null correlate in the type of ellipsis known as backward sprouting is superficially almost identical to the relation between a wh -filler and a gap in a wh -question. In both cases, there is a dependency between the wh -phrase and a later null element. We conduct a sentence acceptability experiment to test whether the remnant–correlate dependency in backward sprouting exhibits two well-known proper…
Relative clauses are islands in Japanese
Relative clauses have traditionally been thought to be islands for extraction, but counterexamples have long been noted. Here we examine one such counterexample, “double relatives” in Japanese, in which an element is relativized from inside another relative clause. These structures are commonly thought to be possible, because they allow for a derivation in which there is no extraction out of the relative clause, but we argue, based on three sente…
Linguistics (14 works) · Philosophy (14 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (13 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (5 works) · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (5 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Artificial Intelligence (4 works)