Download or read book Weak Island Semantics written by Márta Abrusán and published by Oxford Studies in Semantics an. This book was released on 2014 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.