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Syntactic islands /

"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. What are they? How do they arise? Why do they exist? Cedric Boe...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Boeckx, Cedric
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
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  • Machine generated contents note: 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.