Type of Document	Master's Thesis
Author	Alfandre, Danielle Rachel
Author's Email Address	dalfan1@lsu.edu
URN	etd-11082004-201124
Title	The Topography of Syntactic Islands
Degree	Master of Arts (M.A.)
Department	Linguistics (Interdepartmental Program)
Advisory Committee	Advisor Name Title Michael Hegarty Committee Chair Hugh Buckingham Committee Member Janna Oetting Committee Member
Keywords	syntax islands adjuncts coherence
Date of Defense	2004-11-01
Availability	unrestricted
Abstract The Adjunct Island Constraint proposed by Ross (1967) together with Chomsky’s Barriers (1986) are not sufficient to account for the ungrammaticality of wh-extraction out of adjunct clauses, nor do they address the instances of grammatical extraction out of such constructions. Extraction out of Adjunct Islands is now completely predictable using a combination of Chomsky’s Minimalist Program (1995) and Kehler’s Coherence Theory (2002). The combination of these two theories gives an account of both the grammatical and ungrammatical instances of wh- extraction out of adjuncts. The principles of the Minimalist Program together with evidence from Old English adverbial clauses determines the necessary structure for grammatical extraction, while an extension of the Coherence Theory mandates the required semantic relation between the matrix and adjunct clauses. This thesis proves that the possibility of wh-extraction out of adjunct islands is dependent upon the seamless integration of syntax and semantics.
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