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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2014.
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| Edición: | First edition. |
| Colección: | Oxford studies in semantics and pragmatics ;
3. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 for postulating abstract syntactic rules as part of universal grammar. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (260 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191664984 0191664987 9780191757426 019175742X |