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dc.contributor.authorBondevik, Ingrid
dc.contributor.authorLohndal, Terje
dc.date.accessioned2023-02-08T08:55:40Z
dc.date.available2023-02-08T08:55:40Z
dc.date.issued2023-01-10
dc.description.abstractRecent experiments have confirmed earlier informal evidence that finite adjuncts are not islands categorically. Specifically, it has been shown that adjuncts are not necessarily islands for all dependency types (Sprouse et al. 2016), and that the island status of an adjunct depends on the type of the adjunct clause in question (Kush et al. 2019; Müller 2019; Bondevik et al. 2021; Nyvad et al. 2022). The current study further explores these questions by testing three different adjunct clause types: Clauses introduced by om ‘if’, fordi ‘because’ and når ‘when’, in a relative clause (rc) dependency in Norwegian. We find that forming an rc-dependency into a finite adjunct in Norwegian overall causes island effects, but that there are fine-grained differences within the category ‘adjunct’. Specifically, we find that fordi ‘because’ and når ‘when’ yield large island effects, while om ‘if’, on a par with Kobzeva et al. (2022) and Nyvad et al. (2022), yields intermediate results. Rather than relying on binary distinctions only, we argue that any theory that is to explain the empirical landscape must be sufficiently fine-grained and allow for gradient distinctions.en_US
dc.identifier.citationBondevik I, Lohndal T. Extraction from finite adjunct clauses: an investigation of relative clause dependencies in Norwegian. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics. 2023;8(1):1-41en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 2104301
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.16995/ glossa.9033
dc.identifier.issn2397-1835
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/28513
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherOpen Library of Humanitiesen_US
dc.relation.journalGlossa: a journal of general linguistics
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dc.rights.holderCopyright 2023 The Author(s)en_US
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0en_US
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)en_US
dc.titleExtraction from finite adjunct clauses: an investigation of relative clause dependencies in Norwegianen_US
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typeTidsskriftartikkelen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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