Open AccessIsland Constraints in English and Kurdish
Author(s) -
Burhan Qadir Saleem
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
govarî zankoy ṛapeṛîn
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2522-7130
pISSN - 2410-1036
DOI - 10.26750/vol(7).no(4).paper28
Subject(s) - topicalization , sentence , linguistics , element (criminal law) , grammar , front (military) , interrogative word , transformational grammar , transformational leadership , position (finance) , matching (statistics) , history , geography , political science , psychology , mathematics , philosophy , law , social psychology , statistics , finance , meteorology , economics
In transformational grammar, there are rules such as relativization, questioning and topicalization, in which elements abandon their position and move to the front of the sentence. The present study focusses on certain islands in English and Kurdish and examines whether these islands constrain the extraction of elements in Kurdish or not. It is hypothesized that islandhood is not only bout the restrictions on the extraction of an element and putting it in front of the sentence. In Kurdish, even if the question word remains in-situ, there are islands that impose restrictions on forming structures such as interrogatives.