Extraction from Present Participle Adjuncts
The Relevance of the Corresponding Declaratives
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5901262 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andreas Kehl (0000-0001-9947-7877, University of Tübingen, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 177 |
| Publication date | 2022-07-08 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Languages (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2226-471X • E-ISSN: 2226-471X |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/languages7030177 |
| OpenAlex | W4284879159 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 50 |
In this article, I will argue that many of the theoretical approaches to extraction from participle adjunct islands suffer from the fact that the focus of investigation lies on perceived grammaticality differences in interrogative structures. Following approaches which make an explicit connection between extraction asymmetries and properties of the underlying proposition, I will argue that there is good evidence for the existence of similar differences in declarative adjunct constructions which can explain most of the grammaticality patterns observed for interrogatives. A crucial distinction to the majority of previous theories is the focus on acceptability rather than grammaticality, and the assumption that acceptability in declaratives is determined by a variety of semantic and syntactic complexity factors which do not influence how strongly extraction degrades the structure. This line of argumentation is more compatible with approaches to island phenomena that explain the low acceptability of some extractions by independent effects such as processing complexity and discourse function instead of syntactic principles blocking the extraction. I will also discuss a partially weighted, multifactorial model for the acceptability of declarative and interrogative participle adjunct constructions, which explains the judgment patterns in the literature without the need for additional, complex licensing conditions for extraction
Adjunct · Cognitive psychology · Focus (optics · Grammar · Grammaticality · Interrogative · Interrogative word · Linguistics · Natural language processing · Participle · Pragmatics · Proposition · Relevance (law · Syntax · Variety (cybernetics · Verb · Computer Science · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism · Philosophy · Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation · Artificial Intelligence
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| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2023 (2) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |