In Sayeed and Szpakowicz (2004), we proposed a parser inspired by some as- pects of the Minimalist Program. This incremental parser was designed specifi- cally to handle discontinuous constituency phenomena for NPs in Latin. We take a look at the application of this parser to a specific kind of apparent island violation in Latin involving the extraction of con- stituents, including subjects, from tensed embedded clauses. We make use of ideas about the left periphery from Rizzi (1997) to modify our parser in order to handle ap- parently violated subject islands and simi- lar phenomena.

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