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Polish38e.iextraction1
Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian38e.iextraction1

(38) Subject islands

If you could establish islandhood and crossover constraints in section 3 already, you can skip this section and move on to (39). Otherwise, if the language can (optionally) front a contrastive focus.

Only if the language allows extractions of contrastive foci from object clauses (36a)

e) Can a PP be extracted from a subject in its canonical position?

If a PP can be extracted from an NP (36d)

i.

Prompt: [The parents of Harold] complained to the principal.

No! Of Emma [the parents __] complained to the principal.

Background: Languages with (S-)V-O order often display a subject-object asymmetry with respect to extraction.