The island status of clausal complements: Evidence in favor of an information structure explanation
The island status of clausal complements: Evidence in favor of an information structure explanation
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DOI：
10.1515/cogl.2008.014
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发表时间：
2008-01-01
影响因子：
1.7
通讯作者：
Goldberg, Adele E.
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作者：
Ambridge, Ben;Goldberg, Adele E.
本文提供的证据表明，说话者至少部分地根据所涉及的结构的信息结构属性的兼容性来确定哪些结构可以组合。本文考察了“桥”形动词补语、说话方式动词补语和事实动词补语的相对“孤岛”地位。问卷调查数据显示，可接受性的判断和否定测试之间的强相关性，用于操作的概念，“backbackholdedness”。涉及思考或说的主要动词（这两个动词在补语从句的长距离提取中最常见）的语义相似性并不能解释任何差异;这一发现破坏了一种解释，这种解释可能通过类比涉及思考或说的固定公式来预测可接受性。虽然标准的邻接解释也不能预测结果，但研究结果强烈支持这样一种观点，即构式在话语中作为背景的程度上对wh提取起着岛屿的作用。
The present paper provides evidence that suggests that speakers determine which constructions can be combined, at least in part, on the basis of the compatibility of the information structure properties of the constructions involved. The relative "island" status of the following sentence complement constructions are investigated: "bridge" verb complements, manner-of-speaking verb complements and factive verb complements. Questionnaire data is reported that demonstrates a strong correlation between acceptability judgments and a negation test used to operationalize the notion of "backgroundedness". Semantic similarity of the main verbs involved to think or say (the two verbs that are found most frequently in long-distance extraction from complement clauses) did not account for any variance; this finding undermines an account which might predict acceptability by analogy to a fixed formula involving think or say. While the standard subjacency account also does not predict the results, the findings strongly support the idea that constructions act as islands to wh-extraction to the degree that they are backgrounded in discourse.