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16 - Extraction Restrictions in Complex Sentences

from Part Three - Topics in RRG: Complex Sentences

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 June 2023

By
Mitsuaki Shimojo
Edited by
Delia Bentley ,
Ricardo Mairal Usón ,
Wataru Nakamura  and
Robert D. Van Valin, Jr
Delia Bentley
Affiliation:
University of Manchester
Ricardo Mairal Usón
Affiliation:
Universidad National de Educación a Distancia, Madrid
Wataru Nakamura
Affiliation:
Tohoku University, Japan
Robert D. Van Valin, Jr
Affiliation:
Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
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Summary

This chapter deals with the Role and Reference Grammar (RRG) approach to extraction restrictions, or island constraints. The cross-linguistic and language-internal (i.e. cross-constructional) variation in extraction restrictions is captured in RRG in terms of how deeply into sentence structure assertion may be represented. Some languages allow the potential focus domain to reach individual constituents in both complement and adverbial subordinate clauses, with consequences on the extractability of such constituents. One such case is Japanese, a more permissive language than English, which provides the main case study discussed in the chapter.

Keywords

extraction restrictionsisland constraintssubjacency conditionWH-questionsrelativizationtopicalizationpostposing constructionspotential focus domainJapanese
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The Cambridge Handbook of Role and Reference Grammar , pp. 616 - 644
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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