French subject island constraint?
Elodie Winckel, Anne Abeillé · Lingvisticae Investigationes · 2020
Summary We present new experimental results (corpora and experiments) showing that extraction out of subject, compared with extraction out of object, obeys a pragmatic constraint and not a syntactic constraint. We show how such a constraint can be formalized in an HPSG grammar of French which views relative clauses, wh-questions and it-clefts as different constructions.