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Qiu, Chunan – English Language Teaching, 2009
Cyclic Linearization is adopted to account for the island repair of Sluicing in English. The extraction of wh-phrase out of certain islands undergoes non-successive-cyclic movement, which yields conflicting ordering statements. The derivation can be rescued by deleting all ordering statements in IP, including those conflicting ones. Two arguments…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Nouns, Language Research, English