Adjunct Condition

Adjunct Condition is a Condition on Extraction Domain which forbids extraction out of an adjunct.

Examples

This condition accounts for the ungrammaticality of sentences like (i) and (ii), where a wh-phrase has been extracted from the adjunct a.

(i) *Which concert did you sleep [_a during t]?

(ii) *How did you leave [_a before fixing the car t]?

Link

Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics

References

• Chomsky, Noam A. 1986b. Barriers. MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass.
• Huang, James. 1982. Move wh in a language without wh-movement. Linguistic review, 369-416.
• Rizzi, L. 1990. Relativized Minimality. MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass.