The case of adjunct islands in Italian

This work investigates extraction from adjuncts in Italian, as well as two factors that may have a role in island violation: the length of the filler-gap dependency and the effect of resumptive pronouns of the intrusive kind. The island effect is different according to the adjunct taken into account: in some cases extraction is consistently unacceptable, whereas in others it is licensed. Extraction is connected to the level of attachment of the adjunct and the formation of single macro-events made by the matrix verb and the one contained in the adjunct.