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Erteschik-Shir, Nomi and Shalom Lappin. 1979. Dominance and the functional explanation of island phenomena. Theoretical Linguistics 6 (1) : 41–86.
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Article in journal
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English
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E. and L. argue that syntactic islands can best be described and explained in functional rather than purely structural terms. To show this, they make use of the pragmatic (discourse-based) property of dominance.