The island status of clausal complements: Evidence in favor of an information structure explanation

Cognitive Linguistics

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 357-389

  Ambridge, Ben ^a   Goldberg, Adele E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bridge verbs; Constructions; Factive verbs; Island constraints; Manner of speaking verbs; Sentence complements

Indexed keywords

EID: 50949100102     PISSN: 09365907     EISSN: 16133641     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/COGL.2008.014     Document Type: Article

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