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This volume presents a novel semantic account of weak islands, structures that block the displacement of certain elements in a sentence. Dr Abrusan'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 universal grammar.

Grammar, Comparative and general --- Semantics --- Formal semantics --- Semasiology --- Semiology (Semantics) --- Comparative linguistics --- Information theory --- Language and languages --- Lexicology --- Meaning (Psychology) --- Syntax --- Interrogative (Grammar) --- Questions and answers (Linguistics) --- Negatives (Grammar) --- Negatives --- Interrogative --- Semantics. --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax