<DOCINFOAUTHOR""TITLE"IslandsandChains:Resumptionasstranding"SUBJECT"LinguistikAktuell/LinguisticsToday,Volume63"KEYWORDS""SIZEHEIGHT"220"WIDTH"150"VOFFSET"4"> IslandsandChains LinguistikAktuell/LinguisticsToday LinguistikAktuell/LinguisticsToday(LA)providesaplatformfororiginalmonographstudies intosynchronicanddiachroniclinguistics.StudiesinLAconfrontempiricalandtheoretical problemsasthesearecurrentlydiscussedinsyntax,semantics,morphology,phonology,and systematicpragmaticswiththeaimtoestablishrobustempiricalgeneralizationswithina universalisticperspective. SeriesEditor WernerAbraham Ellyv.Gelderen UniversityofVienna ArizonaStateUniversity AdvisoryEditorialBoard GuglielmoCinque IanRoberts UniversityofVenice CambridgeUniversity GüntherGrewendorf KenSafir J.W.Goethe-University,Frankfurt RutgersUniversity,NewBrunswickNJ LilianeHaegeman LisadeMenaTravis UniversityofLille,France McGillUniversity HubertHaider StenVikner UniversityofSalzburg UniversityofAarhus ChristerPlatzack C.Jan-WouterZwart UniversityofLund UniversityofGroningen Volume63 IslandsandChains:Resumptionasstranding byCedricBoeckx Islands and Chains Resumption as stranding Cedric Boeckx HarvardUniversity JohnBenjaminsPublishingCompany Amsterdam(cid:1)/(cid:1)Philadelphia TM Thepaperusedinthispublicationmeetstheminimumrequirements 8 ofAmericanNationalStandardforInformationSciences–Permanence ofPaperforPrintedLibraryMaterials,ansiz39.48-1984. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Boeckx,Cedric. Islandsandchains:resumptionasstranding/ CedricBoeckx. p. cm.(LinguistikAktuell/LinguisticsToday,issn0166–0829;v.63) Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindexes. 1.Grammar,Comparativeandgeneral--Syntax.2.Minimalisttheory (Linguistics)I.Title.II.LinguistikAktuell;Bd.63. P291. B64 2003 415-dc21 2003051905 isbn9027227861(Eur.)/1588114090(US)(Hb;alk.paper) ©2003–JohnBenjaminsB.V. Nopartofthisbookmaybereproducedinanyform,byprint,photoprint,microfilm,or anyothermeans,withoutwrittenpermissionfromthepublisher. JohnBenjaminsPublishingCo.·P.O.Box36224·1020meAmsterdam·TheNetherlands JohnBenjaminsNorthAmerica·P.O.Box27519·Philadelphiapa19118-0519·usa Pour Youngmi, Par toi et pour toi Contents Preface xi CHAPTER 1 Introduction  1. Aspects of minimalism 2 1.1 Core operations 2 1.2 Successive cyclicity 6 1.3 Chains 3 2. Overview 4 3. Structure of the present volume 5 CHAPTER 2 The nature of resumption 7 1. Introduction 7 2. Proposal: resumption = stranding 25 2.1 Stranding 25 2.2 Ramifications 28 2.2.1 Successive cyclic steps 28 2.2.2 D-linked wh-phrases 29 2.2.3 Uninflected complementizers 33 2.2.4 Clitic doubling 35 2.2.5 A note on the absence of true adjunct RPs 37 2.3 Summary 38 3. Non-agreement, resumption, and (sub)extraction 38 3.1 The Left-Branch Condition 39 3.2 Non-agreement and subextraction 42 3.3 Non-agreement and resumption 46 3.4 Non-agreement and clitic doubling 50 4. A note on Quantifier Float 53 5. A note on Wh-agreement 56 6. Conclusion 63 viii Contents CHAPTER 3 On the nature of extraction 65 1. Preliminaries 65 1.1 Shortest 65 1.2 Agreement 67 2. The Case of Wh-phrases 72 3. On chains that are too strong 74 4. The basic cases 78 4.1 Prepositional objects 79 4.2 Bare objects 80 4.3 Subjects 83 4.4 Adjuncts 9 5. Islandhood 97 5.1 Preliminary remarks 98 5.2 Generalized Adjunct Condition 00 5.3 Extraction out of displaced constituents 02 5.4 Operator (weak) islands 05 5.5 Summary 08 6. Resumption and islandhood 08 6.1 No islands 09 6.2 Strong islands 0 6.3 All islands 3 7. Conclusion 7 CHAPTER 4 Further aspects of resumption 9 1. Elaborate patterns 9 1.1 Irish 9 1.2 Selayarese 24 2. Resumptive pronoun fronting 25 2.1 Irish 25 2.2 RP-cliticization 28 2.3 Hebrew 28 3. Bare adjunct NPs 30 4. Multiple A-bar dependencies 32 4.1 Interaction between Topicalization/Wh-movement and Left-Dislocation 33 4.2 Multiple questions 38 Contents ix 5. Base-generation? 42 5.1 PP Dislocation 43 5.2 Intrusion 46 6. Pending issues 50 6.1 Parasitic gaps 50 6.2 Weak Crossover 52 6.3 Reconstruction 55 6.4 The Wh/Relative clause contrast 57 7. Conclusion 59 CHAPTER 5 Conclusion 6 Notes 63 References 92 Name index 23 Language index 27 Subject index 29