"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? Cedr…
Syntax: eine Einführung
by REPP, SOPHIE, Struckmeier, Volker
fromEinführungen in die Sprachwissenschaft
Locality
by Aboh, Enoch Oladé, Guasti, Maria Teresa
fromOxford studies in comparative syntax
"Grammatical functions, readily identifiable informally in particular languages, have had an uncertain status in generative grammar. Despite Chomsky's assertion in Aspects that they are not theoretical primitives (a position vigorously challenged by a number of well-known theori…