Deconstructing the Subject Condition in terms of cumulative constraint violation
Deconstructing the Subject Condition in terms of cumulative constraint violation
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根据累积约束违规来解构主题条件
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发表时间：
2014
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通讯作者：
Andrew Radford
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作者：
L. Haegeman;Ángel L. Jiménez;Andrew Radford
乔姆斯基（1973）将名词性主语的孤岛状态归因于主语条件，这是一种特定于主语的约束。英语和西班牙语是比较研究主语提取的有趣语言，因为英语的主语主要是动词前的，而西班牙语的主语可以是动词前的，也可以是动词后的。在本文中，我们认为，在英语和西班牙语的主题DP的岛屿是不是绝对的。与从受试者中提取相关的退化必须归因于一系列不特定于受试者的更普遍的约束的相互作用。我们认为，这些约束的相互作用具有累积效应，即越多的约束被违反，更高的退化程度的结果。我们还认为，一些发言者有一个更大的容忍约束违反比其他人，这将占广泛的发言者间的判断变异。
Abstract Chomsky (1973) attributes the island status of nominal subjects to the Subject Condition, a constraint specific to subjects. English and Spanish are interesting languages for the comparative study of extraction from subjects, because subjects in English are predominantly preverbal, whereas in Spanish they can be either preverbal or postverbal. In this paper we argue that the islandhood of subject DPs in both English and Spanish is not categorical. The degradation associated with extraction from subjects must be attributed to the interplay of a range of more general constraints which are not specific to subjects. We argue that the interaction of these constraints has a cumulative effect whereby the more constraints that are violated, the higher the degree of degradation that results. We also argue that some speakers have a greater tolerance for constraint violations than others, which would account for widespread inter-speaker judgment variability.
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10.1111/synt.12036
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2015
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Syntax
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作者：
Hofmeister;Culicover;Winkler
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Winkler