Island Constraints: Theory, Acquisition and Processing - Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics 1992 edition

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Table of Contents: Island Constraints: An Introduction; H. Goodluck, M. Rochemont. No Variable is an Island: Complexity and Island Constraints; R. Berwick. Parsing Complex NPs in French; J. Bourdages. Resumptive Pronouns in Islands; N. Erteshik-Shir. Islands, Learnability and the Lexicon; J. Fodor. Adjunct Islands and Acquisition; H. Goodluck, M. Foley, J. Sedivy. Argument Extraction Out of Direct Questions in French; P. Hirschbuhler, D. Valois. Deriving Islands Constraints from Principles of Predication; R. Kluender. Sentences as Islands; D. Lillo-Martin. Which Children Did They Show Obey Strong Cross-Over? D. McDaniel, C. McKee. Processing Subject Extractions; M. Pickering, R. Shillcock. Parsing with Grammar: Islands, Heads and Garden Path; B. Pritchett. Island Constraints at Eighty; C. Pye, Hintat Cheung, S. Kemper. Bounding Rightward A-Dependencies; M. Rochemont. Sensitivity to Islands in an Aphasic Individual; D. Saddy. The Processing Implementation of Syntactic Constraints: The Sentence Matching Debate; L. Stowe. Subjacency Violations and Empty Categories in Second Language Acquisition; L. White. Index."Publisher Marketing: A collection of articles on the theory, acquisition and processing of island constraints. The book is unique in taking an interdisciplinary approach to a syntactic phenomenon that has been at the centre of linguistic debates since the 1960s. Both transformational and non-transformational approaches to island constraints are represented.

Contributor Bio:  Goodluck, Helen Helen Goodluck is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Ottawa.