Complex NPs, Subjacency, and Extraposition

Subject Areas: Locality, complex noun phrases, Subjacency, extraposition, movement, Bounding

This paper appeared in 2004 in Snippets 8, pages 10-11.

In the paper I show that extraposition in German is a nonlocal dependency, i.e. it may cross arbitrarily many NP nodes. Therefore Subjacency cannot be a constraining factor for movment to the right and NPs are not islands for extraposition.