• 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 ...