TY  - BOOK
AU  - Boeckx,Cedric
TI  - Syntactic Islands
T2  - Key Topics in Syntax
SN  - 9781139022415 (ebook)
AV  - P291 .B647 2012
U1  - 415 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Minimalist theory (Linguistics)
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016)
N2  - 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 Boeckx discusses the pros and cons of all the major generative accounts of island effects, and focuses the discussion on whether islands are narrowly syntactic effects, are due to interface factors or are 'merely' performance effects. Thanks to the diversity of island effects, readers are given a unique opportunity to familiarize themselves with all the major research styles and types of analysis in theoretical linguistics and have the chance to reflect on the theoretical implications of concrete natural language examples, allowing them to develop their own synthesis
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139022415
ER  -