Weak Island Semantics

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.

List of contents

• 1: Introduction


• 2: Presuppositional islands


• 3: Negative islands


• 4: Wh-islands


• 5: Quasi-islands and quantificational interveners


• 6: Analyticity and grammar

About the author

Márta Abrusán is a CNRS research scientist at the Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse at the Université Paul Sabatier. After her PhD in linguistics at MIT she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Collegium Budapest, the Institut Jean-Nicod in Paris and the universities of Oxford and Göttingen. Her published work includes papers in Linguistics and Philosophy, Natural Language Semantics, Semantics and Pragmatics and the Journal of Semantics.

Summary

This book presents a novel semantic account of weak islands, structures that block the displacement of certain elements in a sentence. Dr Abrusán'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.

Product details

• Authors: Marta Abrusan, Marta (Permanent Research Scientist Abrusan, Márta Abrusán
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.02.2014
• EAN: 9780199639397
• ISBN: 978-0-19-963939-7
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Oxford Studies in Semantics and Pragmatics; Oxford Studies in Semantics and Pragmatics; Oxford Studies in Semantics an
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other Germanic linguistics / literary studies; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Grammar, syntax and morphology, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics & pragmatics