Weak Island Semantics |
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| Author:
| Abrusan, Marta |
| Series title: | Oxford Studies in Semantics and Pragmatics Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-963939-7 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2014 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $61.00 |
Book Description:
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This book presents a novel semantic account of weak islands, structures that block the displacement of certain elements in a sentence. Dr Abrusan's argument that the behaviour of these constructions has a semantic rather than syntactic explanation removes some of the most important reasons for postulating abstract syntactic rules as part of UG.
This book presents a novel semantic account of weak islands, structures that block the displacement of certain elements in a sentence. Dr Abrusan's argument that the behaviour of these constructions has a semantic rather than syntactic explanation removes some of the most important reasons for postulating abstract syntactic rules as part of UG.