SYNTAX: domain which does not allow extraction. Most of the islands
distinguished today were first described in Ross (1967).
EXAMPLE: Well-known examples are wh-islands, Complex NP's
and coordinate structures. The restrictions on extractability (Island conditions) are often designated as the Wh-island Condition, the Complex NP Constraint (CNPC), and the
Coordinate Structure Constraint (CSC), respectively.
See Bounding theory.
|LIT.||Ross, J.R. (1967)|