Experimental Syntax and Island Effects (Paperback)

1. Experimental syntax and island effects: toward a comprehensive theory of islands Jon Sprouse and Norbert Hornstein; Part I. Global Issues in the Investigation of Island Effects: 2. Deriving competing predictions from grammatical approaches and reductionist approaches to island effects Jon Sprouse, Matthew W. Wagers and Colin Phillips; 3. Islands in the grammar? Standards of evidence Philip Hofmeister, Laura Staum Casasanto and Ivan A. Sag; 4. On the nature of island constraints. I: Language processing and reductionist accounts Colin Phillips; 5. Computational models of acquisition for islands Lisa Pearl and Jon Sprouse; 6. On the nature of island constraints. II: Language learning and innateness Colin Phillips; Part II. Specific Issues in the Investigation of Island Effects: 7. Memory mechanisms for wh-dependency formation and their implications for islandhood Matthew W. Wagers; 8. What's negative about negative islands? A re-evaluation of extraction from weak island contexts Robert Kluender and Simone Gieselman; 9. On the structural nature of island constraints Brian Dillon and Norbert Hornstein; 10. Backgrounded constituents cannot be 'extracted' Adele E. Goldberg; 11. Microvariation in islands Dave Kush, Akira Omaki and Norbert Hornstein; 12. Subject islands in German revisited Johannes Jurka; 13. Subject islands are different Maria Polinsky, Carlos G. Gallo, Peter Graff, Ekaterina Kravtchenko, Adam Milton Morgan and Anne Sturgeon; 14. What vs. who and which: kind-denoting fillers and the complexity of whether-islands Theodora Alexopoulou and Frank Keller; 15. Resumption in English Maria Polinsky, Lauren Eby Clemens, Adam Milton Morgan, Ming Xiang and Dustin Heestand; 16. The island (in)sensitivity of sluicing and sprouting Masaya Yoshida, Jiyeon Lee and Michael Walsh Dickey.