Island Extractions in the Wild: A Corpus Study of Adjunct and Relative Clause Islands in Danish and English

Adjuncts and relative clauses are traditionally classified as strong islands for extraction across languages. However, the Mainland Scandinavian (MSc.) languages have been reported to differ from e.g., English in allowing adjunct clauses. In order investigate distribution of possible island extractions these based on naturally produced material, we conducted two exploratory corpus studies clause Danish English. Results suggest that both finite adjuncts appears at a non-trivial rate Danish, which supports claim structures not Danish. English, also found amount examples displaying adjuncts, well small number cases extraction. This finding presents potential challenge differs MSc. never islands. Furthermore, our results show appear share certain trends can be observed regarding type dependency, featured extraction, matrix predicate