Islands of Contradiction: Presuppostion and Negative Islands

Contradiction, Why-Questions and Complex Islands in Chinese

Presuppositional and Negative Islands: A Semantic Account

This paper proposes a new explanation for the oddness of presuppositional and negative islands, as well as the puzzling facts which show that these islands can be obviated by certain quantificational elements (cf. Fox and Hackl 2007). Previous analyses of these phenomena are shown to fail to solve these puzzles. The proposal rests on two independently motivated assumptions: (i) the idea that th...

Generation of the Ahlfors Five Islands Theorem

Genomic islands of speciation or genomic islands and speciation?

Populations of the malaria mosquito, Anopheles gambiae, are comprised of at least two reproductively isolated, sympatric populations. In this issue, White et al. (2010) use extensive sampling, high-density tiling microarrays, and an updated reference genome to clarify and expand our knowledge of genomic differentiation between these populations. It is now clear that DNA near the centromeres of ...

Islands and Non-islands in Native and Heritage Korean

To a large extent, island phenomena are cross-linguistically invariable, but English and Korean present some striking differences in this domain. English has wh-movement and Korean does not, and while both languages show sensitivity to wh-islands, only English has island effects for adjunct clauses. Given this complex set of differences, one might expect Korean/English bilinguals, and especiall...