The Radical Unacceptability Hypothesis: Accounting for Unacceptability without Universal Constraints

The Radical Unacceptability Hypothesis (RUH) has been proposed as a way of explaining the unacceptability of extraction from islands and frozen structures. This hypothesis explicitly assumes a distinction between unacceptability due to violations of local well-formedness conditions—conditions on con...

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Published in:	Languages
Main Authors:	Peter W. Culicover, Giuseppe Varaschin, Susanne Winkler
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	MDPI AG 2022-04-01
Subjects:	syntactic theory island constraints processing complexity unacceptability and grammaticality A′ constructions frequency
Online Access:	https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/7/2/96