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A note on pragmatic constraints on syntax1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 January 2017

ANDREAS TROTZKE
ANDREAS TROTZKE*
Affiliation:
Stanford University
*
Author’s address: trotzke@stanford.edu
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Abstract

This note comments on Szendrői’s (2017) claim that some of the pragmatic constraints on syntactic operations proposed in Trotzke (2015a) are not supported by convincing empirical evidence. Szendrői objects to two empirical points made by Trotzke. I will deal with these points in turn: Section 1 focuses on the syntactic flexibility of idioms discussed by Szendrői, and Section 2 replies to her comments in the domain of island effects.

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Journal of Linguistics , Volume 53 , Issue 2 , 01 April 2017 , pp. 437 - 439
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Footnotes

[1] I thank Tom Wasow for discussing the idiom cases with me, and I gratefully acknowledge financial support from the German Research Foundation (DFG grant TR 1228/2-1).

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