Adjunct Condition

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Adjunct Condition is a Condition on Extraction Domain which forbids extraction out of an adjunct.


Examples

This condition accounts for the ungrammaticality of sentences like (i) and (ii), where a wh-phrase has been extracted from the adjunct a.

(i) *Which concert did you sleep [a during t]?

(ii) *How did you leave [a before fixing the car t]?

Link

Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics

References

  • Chomsky, Noam A. 1986b. Barriers. MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass.
  • Huang, James. 1982. Move wh in a language without wh-movement. Linguistic review, 369-416.
  • Rizzi, L. 1990. Relativized Minimality. MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass.