French subject island constraint?
Summary We present new experimental results (corpora and experiments) showing that extraction out of subject, compared with extraction out of object, obeys a pragmatic constraint and not a syntactic constraint. We show how such a constraint can be formalized in an HPSG grammar of French which views relative clauses, wh-questions and it-clefts as different constructions.
1974 ◽
Vol 32
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pp. 390-391
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Vol 36
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pp. 346-347
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Vol 51
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pp. 1000-1001
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