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2022-04-13Zeitschriftenartikel DOI: 10.3390/languages7020096
The Radical Unacceptability Hypothesis: Accounting for Unacceptability without Universal Constraints
Culicover, Peter W.
Varaschin, Giuseppe
Winkler, Susanne
Sprach- und literaturwissenschaftliche Fakultät
The Radical Unacceptability Hypothesis (RUH) has been proposed as a way of explaining the unacceptability of extraction from islands and frozen structures. This hypothesis explicitly assumes a distinction between unacceptability due to violations of local well-formedness conditions—conditions on constituency, constituent order, and morphological form—and unacceptability due to extra-grammatical factors. We explore the RUH with respect to classical islands, and extend it to a broader range of phenomena, including freezing, A′ chain interactions, zero-relative clauses, topic islands, weak crossover, extraction from subjects and parasitic gaps, and sensitivity to information structure. The picture that emerges is consistent with the RUH, and suggests more generally that the unacceptability of extraction from otherwise well-formed configurations reflects non-syntactic factors, not principles of grammar.
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