Long-Distance Dependencies without Island Constraints Within the tradition of generative grammar, filler-gap constructions
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Within the tradition of generative grammar, filler-gap constructions and especially island constraints (Ross 1967) have played a crucial role in shaping the grammar and in arguing for a rich system of innate constraints that are specific to language. The existence of island phenomena has given rise to such principles as `Subjacency' (1), `Superiority' (2) (commonly recast as `Attract Closest') or the `Subject Condition' (3) (recast in various ways):
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