Borsley, Robert D (2022) Why do we need another book about unbounded dependencies? A review article on Chaves & Putnam’s Unbounded Dependency Constructions. Journal of Linguistics, 58 (1). pp. 203-224. DOI https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022226721000396
Borsley, Robert D (2022) Why do we need another book about unbounded dependencies? A review article on Chaves & Putnam’s Unbounded Dependency Constructions. Journal of Linguistics, 58 (1). pp. 203-224. DOI https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022226721000396
Borsley, Robert D (2022) Why do we need another book about unbounded dependencies? A review article on Chaves & Putnam’s Unbounded Dependency Constructions. Journal of Linguistics, 58 (1). pp. 203-224. DOI https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022226721000396
Abstract
Unbounded dependencies (UDs), in wh-interrogatives, relative clauses and other constructions, have been a major focus of syntactic research for more than half a century. The most widely assumed approach analyzes them in terms of movement and views island phenomena as largely a matter of syntax. Both these positions are problematic. Moreover, they stem from assumptions that have been at the heart of syntactic theorizing for many decades. Chaves and Putnam present evidence that both the dominant approach to UDs and the general approach to syntax from which it derives are flawed. They argue for a non-movement approach to UDs and a largely non-syntactic approach to island phenomena, and for an approach to syntax which has the relation between linguistic knowledge and language use and the complexity of acceptability judgements as central concerns. Their book is an important one that could have a major impact both on research on UDs and on syntactic research more generally.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | competence and performance; grammaticality and acceptability; island phenomena; unbounded dependencies |
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences Faculty of Social Sciences > Language and Linguistics, Department of |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 02 Feb 2022 16:47 |
Last Modified: | 30 Oct 2024 16:27 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/32193 |
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