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1 Introduction 2 Absolute vs. selective islands 3 Strong islands 3.1 Classical strong islands 3.2 Types of explanation 3.3 Ways of salvaging strong island violations 3.4 More on Subjacency 3.4.1 Cinque (1990 ) 3.4.2 Some intriguing similarities between SIs and WIs 3.4.3 Postal (1998 ) 4 Weak islands: a preview 5 What extractions are sensitive to WIs? (A) 5.1 Arguments vs. adjuncts (A1) 5.2 Referential vs. non-referential/existential presupposition (A2) 5.3 Re-evaluating the role of D-linking (A3) 5.4 Individual vs. non-individual, and how many -phrases (A4) 5.5 Functional readings and event-related readings (A5) 5.6 Individuals: is it being of type e that matters? (A6) 5.7 Split constructions (A7) 5.8 Negative polarity (NPI) licensing (A8) 5.9 Cross-sentential anaphora (A9) 5.10 Elements of anti-pronominal contexts (A10) 6 What contexts constitute weak islands? (B) 6.1 Wh -islands (B1) 6.2 Negatives and other affective operators (B2) 6.3 Response stance and non-stance in contrast to volunteered stance predicates (B3) 6.4 Extraposition islands (B4) 6.5 VP-adverbs (B5) 6.6 Scope islands (B6) 7 Theories 7.1 ECP and Subjacency 7.2 Relativized Minimality 7.3 Monotonicity 7.4 From Relativized Minimality to a scope theory 7.4.1 A major problem with Relativized Minimality 7.4.2 Scopal intervention 7.4.3 Prospects for a revision of Relativized Minimality ... log in or subscribe to read full text