Constraints on variables in syntax

By J. Ross. 1967

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Neural Network Acceptability Judgments (2018, background): “…sources in the corpus: Kim & Sells (2008) is a recent undergraduate syntax textbook, Levin (1993) is a comprehensive reference detailing the lexical properties of thousands of verbs, and Ross (1967) is an influential dissertation focusing on wh-movement and extraction islands in English syntax.”
What do RNN Language Models Learn about Filler–Gap Dependencies? (2018, background): “Furthermore, they are subject to numerous complex island constraints (Ross, 1967).”
Structural Supervision Improves Learning of Non-Local Grammatical Dependencies (2019, background): “Figure 1, left panel, shows the results.”
Phrase-final prepositions in Quebec French: An empirical study of contact, code-switching and resistance to convergence* (2011, background): “…where to place the preposition, English speakers may also choose between placing the preposition at the head of the phrase, to which, following Ross (1967), we refer as PIED-PIPING (PP), as in (2), and leaving it in phrase-final position with no adjacent complement, commonly known as…”
Unbounded Dependencies and Coordinate Structure (1981, unknown): “Following the arguments in Klein (1980), we take how many to be an AP in the following sentence (which I owe to Emmon Bach and Barbara Partee): (i) How many did you buy of those pies at the fair?”
Quantifier Float and Wh-Movement in an Irish English (2000, background): “…now falls within the known range of syntactic variation, since we know that some languages permit extraction of a wh-specifier, stranding the head, and that some do not (Ross 1967, Bresnan 1976, Uriagereka 1988, Chomsky 1995:263, Aissen 1996, Chung 1998:255–257, 308–313, Kennedy and Merchant 1998).”
Invisible constituents? Parentheses as B-merged adverbial phrases (2007, background): “The CoP creates a structural position for the conjunction and accounts for the coordinationinternal grouping (Ross 1967 already convincingly showed that the coordinator forms a constituent with the second conjunct).”
Ellipsis Sites as Definite Descriptions (2008, background): “The strict and sloppy readings of a representative example are given in (5) (Ross 1967).”