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Island Constraints

Island Constraints is a syntactic principle in generative grammar that restricts the extraction of constituents from certain structurally embedded domains, such as complex noun phrases or subordinate clauses, thereby blocking long-distance dependencies that would otherwise be grammatically permissible.

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121

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2017–2026

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Publications

104

Bioclimatic and physical characterization of the world’s islands

Patrick Weigelt, Walter Jetz, Holger Kreft · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2013 · 324 citations · Full text

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The real-time status of island phenomena

Colin Phillips · Language · 2006 · 323 citations

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The island status of clausal complements: Evidence in favor of an information structure explanation

Ben Ambridge, Adele Ε. Goldberg · Cognitive Linguistics · 2008 · 192 citations

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The influence of first language on the processing of wh-movement in English as a second language

Alan Juffs · Second language Research · 2005 · 186 citations · Full text

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Sea Change: Island Communities and Climate Change

Heather Lazrus · Annual Review of Anthropology · 2012 · 185 citations

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Authors

179

  1. JS
    Jon Sprouse

    University of California, Irvine, United States

    4 publications · 205 citations

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  2. RL
    Roger Lévy

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States

    3 publications · 91 citations

    3

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  3. DK
    Dave Kush

    Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

    3 publications · 128 citations

    3

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  4. EW
    Ethan Wilcox

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States

    3 publications · 91 citations

    3

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  5. RF
    Richard Futrell

    University of California, Irvine, United States

    3 publications · 91 citations

    3

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Institutions

121

  1. University of Prince Edward Island

    Charlottetown, Canada

    7 h-index

    8 publications

    198 citations

  2. Harvard University Press

    Cambridge, United States

    4 h-index

    4 publications

    144 citations

  3. University of California, Irvine

    Irvine, United States

    4 h-index

    5 publications

    269 citations

  4. Northwestern University

    Evanston, United States

    3 h-index

    5 publications

    283 citations

  5. University of Tasmania

    Hobart, Australia

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    90 citations

  6. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    137 citations

  7. University College London

    London, United Kingdom

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    124 citations

  8. University of Göttingen

    Göttingen, Germany

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    711 citations

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Venues

  1. Island Studies Journal

    ISJ · 10 publications · 223 citations

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  2. Language

    6 publications · 589 citations

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  3. Linguistic Inquiry

    5 publications · 278 citations

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  4. Area

    3 publications · 126 citations

    3

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  5. Glossa a journal of general linguistics

    3 publications · 108 citations

    3

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