Syntactic Islands

Informationen zum Autor Cedric Boeckx is Research Professor at ICREA (The Catalan Institute for Advanced Studies) and is also based at the Center for Theoretical Linguistics, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Klappentext A comprehensive overview of syntactic islands. What are they? How do they arise? Why do they exist? Zusammenfassung The phenomenon of the syntactic 'island' - a clause or structure from which a word cannot be moved - is central to research and study in syntactic theory. This book provides a comprehensive overview of syntactic islands! discussing the pros and cons of all the major generative accounts of island effects. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Never such innocence again; 2. What is really all just a mirage?; 3. Why the ultimate solution is unlikely to be purely syntactic; 4. Priority to the interfaces; 5. A tribute to Ross.

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A comprehensive overview of syntactic islands. What are they? How do they arise? Why do they exist?

Résumé
The phenomenon of the syntactic 'island' - a clause or structure from which a word cannot be moved - is central to research and study in syntactic theory. This book provides a comprehensive overview of syntactic islands, discussing the pros and cons of all the major generative accounts of island effects.

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1. Never such innocence again; 2. What is really all just a mirage?; 3. Why the ultimate solution is unlikely to be purely syntactic; 4. Priority to the interfaces; 5. A tribute to Ross.