Island effects

[Ron Kaplan]

We did talk about island constraints in that paper, in terms of
restrictions on the nonterminal elements of the extraction paths, not
just the terminal elements.  Part of the argument in favor  of
functional uncertainty (as opposed to the conventional approach of what
might be called "phrasal uncertainty") was that whether or not a node
acts as an island depends on the function it is assigned, not just its
category.  Thus a relative clause S might form an island while a
complement S would not, distinguished not by category but by function
(RELMOD vs COMP, say).  This is independent of whether the uncertainty
is stated outside-in or inside-out (the latter was introduced later in
part as a way of dealing with some cases of wh-in-situ).

--Ron


On Nov 15, 2004, at 12:39 PM, Ash Asudeh wrote:

> Hi Andrew
>
> I'm not aware of a lot of literature on islands in LFG, but here is
> some
> that I know of and hopefully other list members will include more.
> BibTex
> entries are given below.
>
> Kaplan and Zaenen's (1989) paper on long-distance dependencies using
> outside-in (rather than inside-out) functional uncertainty is
> relevant, in
> that it talks about restrictions on terminal elements in extraction
> paths,
> but I don't recall them specifically discussing islands.
>
> The chapter on long-distance dependencies in Dalrymple (2001) discusses
> extraction paths in details (although she doesn't use the term island,
> I
> don't think). See especially p. 396 and surrounding material.
>
> I discuss islands in a couple of places in my thesis (Asudeh 2004).
> Chapter 6, on Irish resumptives, is releveant, especially p. 217ff. on
> wh-islands. I'm not sure if this gets at your wh-in-situ question, but
> it
> might do. Islands are discussed in some detail in chapter 8, on
> processing
> of non-grammaticized, resumptive-like pronouns. They are discussed
> throughout the chapter, and especially scattered through pp. 295-317
> (the PDF is downloadable from my web site, do a search maybe).
>
> Both Dalrymple (2001) and Asudeh (2004) also treat extraction and
> islands
> in terms of outside-in functional uncertainty. I discuss the relevance
> of
> this in comparison to islands in MP/P&P and TAG in chapter 8 of my
> thesis
> (pp. 315-317).
>
> Ash
>
>
> @InCollection{kaplan;zaenen89,
>   author = 	 {Ronald M. Kaplan and Annie Zaenen},
>   title = 	 {Long-distance dependencies, constituent structure, and
> functional uncertainty},
>   booktitle = 	 {Alternative Conceptions of Phrase Structure},
>   crossref =	 {baltin;kroch89},
>   pages = {17--42},
>   note =	 {Reprinted in \citet[137--165]{dalrymple;ea95}}
> }
>
>
> @Book{baltin;kroch89,
>   editor =	 {Mark Baltin and Anthony Kroch},
>   title = 	 {Alternative Conceptions of Phrase Structure},
>   publisher = 	 {University of Chicago Press},
>   year = 	 1989,
>   address =	 {Chicago},
> }
>
>
> @Book{dalrymple;ea95,
>   editor =	 {Mary Dalrymple and Ronald M. Kaplan and John T. Maxwell
> and Annie Zaenen},
>   title = 	 {Formal issues in {L}exical-{F}unctional {G}rammar},
>   publisher = 	 {CSLI},
>   year = 	 1995,
>   address =	 {Stanford, CA},
> }
>
>
> @Book{dalrymple01,
>   author =	 {Mary Dalrymple},
>   title = 	 {{Lexical Functional Grammar}},
>   publisher = 	 {Academic Press},
>   year = 	 2001,
>   address =	 {San Diego, CA},
> }
>
>
> @PhdThesis{asudeh04-phd,
>   author = 	 {Ash Asudeh},
>   title = 	 {Resumption as Resource Management},
>   school = 	 {Stanford University},
>   year = 	 {2004}
> }
>
>
>
> On Mon, 15 Nov 2004, Andrew Carnie wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I'm writing up a short encyclopedia article on island effects. I'd
>> like to
>> mention recent LFG explanations (inside out constraints???). Can
>> someone point
>> me to something recent and accessible on the topic. In particular, is
>> there
>> anything written about apparent Island effects with wh-insitu? (a la
>> Huang/Watanabe).
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Andrew
>>
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