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    • Comparing Island Effects for Different Dependency Types in Norwegian 

      Kobzeva, Anastasia; Sant, Charlotte; Robbins, Parker T.; Vos, Myrte Titia; Lohndal, Terje; Kush, Dave Whitney (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-07-29)
      Recent research suggests that island effects may vary as a function of dependency type, potentially challenging accounts that treat island effects as reflecting uniform constraints on all filler-gap dependency formation. Some authors argue that cross-dependency variation is more readily accounted for by discourse-functional constraints that take into account the discourse status of both the ...

    • Investigating variation in island effects: A case study of Norwegian extraction 

      Kush, Dave Whitney; Lohndal, Terje; Sprouse, Jonathan (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017-11-27)
      We present a series of large-scale formal acceptability judgment studies that explored Norwegian island phenomena in order to follow up on previous observations that speakers of Mainland Scandinavian languages like Norwegian accept violations of certain island constraints that are unacceptable in most languages cross-linguistically. We tested the acceptability of wh-extraction from five island types: ...

    • On the Island Sensitivity of Topicalization in Norwegian: An Experimental Investigation 

      Kush, Dave Whitney; Lohndal, Terje; Sprouse, Jonathan (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019-09-03)
      Mainland Scandinavian languages have been reported to allow movement from embedded questions, relative clauses, and complex NPs—domains commonly considered to be islands crosslinguistically. Yet in formal acceptability studies Scandinavian participants often show 'island effects': they reject island-violating movement similarly to native speakers of 'island-sensitive' languages. To investigate this ...

    • Variation in adjunct islands: The case of Norwegian 

      Bondevik, Ingrid; Kush, Dave Whitney; Lohndal, Terje (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-12-11)
      Finite adjunct clauses are often assumed to be among the strongest islands for filler–gap dependency creation cross-linguistically, but Kush, Lohndal & Sprouse (2019) found experimental evidence suggesting that finite conditional <i>om</i>-adjunct clauses are not islands for topicalization in Norwegian. To investigate the generality of these findings, we ran three acceptability judgment experiments ...