Constraints on the Distribution of NP Clauses

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Abstract
Five earlier accounts of a certain class of restrictions barring noun clauses from environments that are in some sense 'internal' are argued to be empirically deficient in a number of ways. An alternative proposal is put forward with a view to (i) remedying the empirical inadequacies of the earlier analyses and (ii) predicting what types of languages exhibit the restrictions at issue. It is further argued that the proposed alternative restrictions exhibit non-trivial correlations with independently established facts of language processing, and that the latter can explicate to an important degree the existence of the former in the languages of the world.

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