Weak Island semantics /

This volume 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 fo...

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Main Author:	Abrusán, Márta, 1978-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Language Notes:	English.
Published:	Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Edition:	First edition.
Series:	Oxford studies in semantics and pragmatics ; 3.
Subjects:	Semantics. Sémantique. semantics. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > General. Semantics Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book