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Scandinavian relative clause extractions - Apparent restrictions

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Summary, in English

This brief article investigates the restrictions on Mainland Scandinavian relative clause extraction that have figured in the literature on island constraints. The conclusion is that none of these restrictions can be regarded as constraints on relative clause extraction per se and therefore that the peripheral status standardly assigned to Mainland Scandinavian relative clause extraction cannot be maintained.

Publishing year

2015

Language

English

Publication/Series

Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax

Volume

94

Document type

Working paper

Publisher

Lund University & Universiteit Gent

Topic

  • Languages and Literature

Keywords

  • Island constraints
  • long-distance dependencies
  • relative clauses
  • Scandinavian

Status

Published

Project

  • Universality and domain-specificity: processing relative clause extractions in Swedish
  • Cognitive Constraints on Sentence Processing

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1100-097X