Chapter 2.Background13
2.1Theories of wh-in-situ14
2.1.1Covert movement14
2.1.2Unselective binding17
2.1.3Covert movement and unselective binding21
2.2Theories of locality23
2.2.1Subjacency23
2.2.2Empty category principle26
2.2.3Barriers27
2.2.4Relativized minimality28
2.2.5Minimal link condition29
2.2.6Phase impenetrability condition30
Chapter 3.Methodology33
3.1Acceptability and grammaticality33
3.2Informal and formal methods36
3.3The factorial definition of island effects38
3.4The logic of the present study42
3.5The factorial approach in other languages46
Chapter 4.Wh-island Effects in Chinese49
4.1Controversy 1: Argument and adjunct asymmetry49
4.1.1Preliminaries49
4.1.2Theoretical accounts51
4.1.3Empirical dissension57
4.2Controversy 2: Subject and object asymmetry61
4.2.1Introduction61
4.2.2Contentions63
4.2.3Solution71
4.3Controversy: D-linked and non-D-linked asymmetry74
4.3.1D-linking and island effects in general74
4.3.2D-linking and wh-island effects in Chinese76
4.3.3Revisiting D-linking and island effects78
Appendix145
1.Raw materials for Experiment 1145
2.Raw materials for Experiment 2156
3.Raw materials for Experiment 3161