Syntactic Islands by Cedric Boeckx PAPERBACK 9780521138789

Syntactic Islands\nby Cedric Boeckx\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Cedric Boeckx\nTitle: Syntactic Islands\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Grammar, syntax and morphology\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press\nPublication year: 2012\nISBN-13: 9780521138789\nISBN-10: 0521138787\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nThe 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 interfac.