A term in transformational grammar for syntactic structures which limit the scope of transformational rules ( transformation) and interpretation rules so that they can only be used within certain domains. For example, (a) adnominal sentences, (b)...

A location of jobs or employers such that at a point in time firms cannot move but workers can. On each island, the competitive labour market there sets wages equal to the MARGINAL PRODUCT OF LABOUR on that island; as productivity differs from island...

// n. A language whose words are invariable in form, with each word typically consisting of a single morpheme. Such a language has no morphology; Vietnamese is a good example. See Horne (1966) for discussion, and compare agglutinating language,...

// n. A constituent which is inaccessible to certain syntactic processes or relations, particularly dependencies, in that no dependency, or no dependency of a specified type, can have one end inside that constituent and the other end outside it. See...

An island (IPA: /ˈaɪlənd/) or isle (/ˈaɪl/) is any piece of land that is completely surrounded by water, above high tide, and isolated from other significant landmasses. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls are called islets....