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Contradiction and grammar : the case of weak islands
This thesis is about weak islands. Weak islands are contexts that are transparent to some but not all operator-variable dependencies. For this reason, they are also sometimes called selective islands. Some paradigmatic cases of weak island violations include the ungrammatical examples involving …
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Extraction from relative clauses in Swedish
… Swedish relative clauses constitute some type of weak island. The results and their implications for theories of islands are discussed in relation to recent proposals within the Minimalist program.