[parislinguists] UMR 7023/"Axe Minim." - séminaire 19-05-03

[Hans Obenauer]

UMR 7023 "Axe Minimaliste"


Cher(e)s collègues,

Vous trouverez ci-joint le résumé de la conférence que fera

              Joachim Sabel (Université Catholique de Louvain)

                     "The Syntax of Island Constraints"

Date: 19/05/2003, 11 h - 13 h
Lieu: UMR 7023, 15 rue Catulienne, 93 Saint-Denis, salle 205
         Métro Saint-Denis Basilique, RER Saint-Denis

Cordialement
Hans Obenauer

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The Syntax of Island Constraints - JOACHIM SABEL

An account of island-effects within the Minimalist Program presents a
challenge, since, assuming the Minimal Link Condition (MLC) as the only
locality constraint on movement, as is done in the Minimalist Program (Chomsky
1995, chapter 4; 2000), fails to account for fundamental properties of
movement. Firstly, it does not offer an explanation for asymmetries in wh-
extraction from wh-islands which were traditionally explained by the ECP and
the locality concept of Subjacency, the latter being parameterized in the way
it applies in the languages of the world. Additionally, given the MLC, an
explanation for the other types of island phenomena, the so-called CED effects
(Condition on Extraction Domains) (Huang 1982), is lost. In this talk, I will
argue that an account for island effects can be given that is compatible with
the MLC. It will be shown that cross-linguistic variation with respect to wh-
island phenomena can be explained if we assume that C may project multiple
specifiers, and that the cross-linguistic variation with respect to CED-island
effects can be derived from the structure-building operation Merge in
combination with theta-theoretic considerations.

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CNRS - UMR 7023 SFL

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