Negative and factive islands revisited

It is argued that the restrictions on "wh"-movement out of negative and factive islands cannot be explained solely by the Empty Category Principle but that embedded properties assigned by matrix verbs also intervene. (Contains 48 references.) (LB)

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Published in:Journal of linguistics 1992-09, Vol.28 (2), p.343-374
Main Author: Rooryck, Johan
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adjunct clauses
Adverbials
Adverbs
Barriers
English language
Foreign Countries
Grammatical clauses
Interrogative sentences
Interrogatives
Linguistic complements
Linguistic Theory
Linguistics
Paraphrase
Relative clauses
Sentence Structure
Structural Analysis (Linguistics)
Verbs
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Summary:It is argued that the restrictions on "wh"-movement out of negative and factive islands cannot be explained solely by the Empty Category Principle but that embedded properties assigned by matrix verbs also intervene. (Contains 48 references.) (LB)
ISSN:0022-2267
1469-7742
DOI:10.1017/S0022226700015255