{"pk":35249,"title":"Moving away from the island: Extraction from adjunct clauses in Danish","subtitle":null,"abstract":"<p>This study aims to explore crosslinguistic variation in island sensitivity between Danish and English, specifically focusing on the extraction patterns of different types of adjunct clauses. Additionally, it investigates how context, dependency type, information structure and syntactic structure may impact the acceptability of extraction from adjunct clauses. The results indicate that Danish exhibits acceptability patterns similar to those found in Swedish and Norwegian regarding extraction from conditional and causal adjunct clauses. However, the raw scores of extraction from adjunct clauses are unexpectedly low in Danish. The study discusses potential explanations involving factors related to syntax, discourse function and processing but finds limitations in each approach and concludes that a fine-grained account is needed in order to capture the observed variability. This research contributes to a deeper understanding of island phenomena and highlights the need for investigation involving direct comparisons between languages.</p>","language":"eng","license":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0","short_name":"CC BY 4.0","text":"Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0"},"keywords":[],"section":"Regular Article","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/985605cw","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Anne Mette","middle_name":"","last_name":"Nyvad","name_suffix":"","institution":"Aarhus University","department":"Department of English"},{"first_name":"Christiane","middle_name":"","last_name":"Müller","name_suffix":"","institution":"Aarhus University","department":"Department of English"},{"first_name":"Ken","middle_name":"Ramshøj","last_name":"Christensen","name_suffix":"","institution":"Aarhus University","department":"Department of English"}],"date_submitted":"2024-08-30T06:45:52.129000-07:00","date_accepted":"2025-12-09T03:36:08.301000-07:00","date_published":"2026-02-17T10:30:00-07:00","render_galley":{"label":"XML","type":"xml","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/glossapsycholinguistics/article/35249/galley/48134/download/"},"galleys":[{"label":"PDF with trailing period fixes","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/glossapsycholinguistics/article/35249/galley/48133/download/"},{"label":"XML","type":"xml","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/glossapsycholinguistics/article/35249/galley/48134/download/"}]}