Vitoria 2011 island hand-out

1 Carlo Cecchetto Caterina Donati University of Milan-Bicocca Sapienza University of Rome RELABELING + NO LABELING = ISLANDS 0.Islands and successive cyclic movement The reason why islands (with the exception of WH-islands, now uncontroversially reduced to Relativized Minimality effects: Rizzi 1990), almost fifty years after their first systematic description (Ross 1967) are still in need of a definitive explanation (for an overview cf.

• cyclic movement
• nominal
• edge of the phase
• wh-phrase
• clauses
• label
• labeling
• clause
• cannot
• structure