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The End of CED? Minimalism and Extraction Domains
Author(s) -
Stepanov Arthur
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
syntax
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.587
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 1467-9612
pISSN - 1368-0005
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9612.2007.00094.x
Subject(s) - minimalism (technical communication) , complement (music) , linguistics , grammar , computer science , minimalist program , natural language processing , philosophy , biochemistry , chemistry , human–computer interaction , phenotype , complementation , gene
. The traditional ‘‘unified’’ approaches to extractability out of subjects and adjuncts in the form of Huang's (1982) Condition on Extraction Domains (CED) and Chomsky's (1986a) Barriers and its minimalist descendants face an empirical challenge presented by languages in which extraction out of subjects is possible but extraction out of adjuncts is not. The existence of such languages calls into question the unifying basis for the traditional accounts—namely, the complement/noncomplement distinction that was at the core of these accounts. In this paper I consider a possible extension of a recent minimalist account making use of the complement/noncomplement distinction—Nunes and Uriagereka (2000)—to the problematic languages and show that it also encounters conceptual and empirical problems. I then propose an ‘‘eclectic’’ minimalist approach to extraction domains in which extractability out of subjects and adjuncts are regulated by different mechanisms of grammar in a nonoverlapping manner.