EAN: 9781501512148

FREEZING GEBUNDEN

Displacement is a fundamental property of human language  and the restrictions on displacement
have been a central concern in generative grammar ever since Ross' (1967) ground-breaking
observations of island constraints. While island phenomena have been investigated in detail
from various perspectives  a different domain  the domain of Freezing  originally defined in
terms of non-base structures  has received far less attention. This volume brings together
papers that address the questions of: What are the different concepts of Freezing? Which
empirical domains can they explain? Is Freezing a core-syntactic restriction or does
information structure  or processing play a role? The collection of papers provides insights
into the empirical basis of the Freezing Principle in relation to other restrictions on
extraction in order to contribute to a broader understanding of the nature of restrictions on
displacement in language. The overall goal of the volume is a reconsideration of Freezing and
other (sub-)extraction phenomena  both from a theoretical and empirical perspective  by
bringing together contributions from experts in the field to discuss and broaden our knowledge
of the empirical range of Freezing phenomena as well as their explanation.

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