Год выпуска: 2012 Автор: Talia Rubovitz-Mann Издательство: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Страниц: 216 ISBN: 9783659140402
Описание
This book provides an information-structure account of extractions from Relative Clauses (RC’s). These have been ruled-out syntactically since Ross’s ‘Island’ Constraints. Still, numerous studies have demonstrated the acceptability of such extractions in many languages and the relevance of non-syntactic factors to their analysis. Many of these treatments are shown in this book to be ad hoc or too open-ended. An interesting observation raised in previous studies, however, is that the best extractions from RC’s occur in existential sentences. This study establishes that there is indeed a crucial relationship between ‘existentiality’ and extraction from RC’s. Acceptable extractions are characterized by a new theoretical concept referred to by the author as Evidential-Existenials – sentences which establish existence by providing evidence for existence. The book provides a principled account of the properties of acceptable extractions from RC’s in Hebrew, English and other languages. The...
