... that will be discussed in the remainder of the book, discusses how these are modelled in a variety of frameworks, and how human beings process such filler-gap dependencies. The chapter concludes with five overarching questions, each of which is the topic of subsequent chapters: (1) What is the possible range of filler...

... never nominate i. c. Herselfi would never nominate Maryi. d. Maryi thinks I nominated herselfi. Filler-gap dependencies are very much part of linguistic structure. In extraction path- way languages there are specific morphosyntactic phenomena which only occur in struc- tures in the domain of a filler...

... a number of non‐local dependencies (agreement, case assignment, control, and filler–gap dependencies), providing localist analyses that embody precise hypotheses about the nature of non‐locality in language. Sag Ivan A construction control feature geometry filler gap dependency locality rule Chomsky...

... gap. This chapter attempts to develop a parsing algorithm that is inspired by Stabler, but which allows a sentence-initial filler to be scanned immediately while delaying the choice of corresponding gap position. filler gap dependency Merge Minimalist Grammar MG parsing remnant movement Stabler E...

...-final languages clause boundaries long-distance dependencies wh-phrases relative clauses scrambling filler-gap dependencies This chapter summarizes research investigating how sentences are processed in Japanese (see Nakayama, Mazuka, and Shirai 2006 , for a recent collection of papers...