Extraction asymmetries : experimental evidence from German / Tanja Kiziak.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kiziak, Tanja.

Series:

Linguistik aktuell/linguistics today, 0166-0829 ; 163

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

German language--Grammar, Generative.

German language.

German language--Coordinate constructions.

Phrase structure grammar.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 273 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Company, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This monograph addresses divergent views in the linguistic literature on whether German displays the that-trace effect and other subject/object asymmetries commonly found for long extractions in English and other languages. Using newly developed rating methodologies, the author exposes consistent and robust subject/object asymmetries in German - a surprisingly unequivocal result given that the existence of these effects is controversial. This finding raises important questions: how can one account for the discrepancy between the clear experimental evidence on the one hand, and the lack of consensus in the linguistic literature on the other? And secondly, it raises again the old question of why subject extractions are dispreferred. This work also provides intriguing new insights into the long-standing question on how to analyse German constructions such as Wer glaubst du hat recht? - the 'parenthesis versus extraction debate'. In this work decisive evidence points in favour of the parenthetical analysis.

Contents:

Extraction Asymmetries

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Dedication page

Table of contents

List of figures

Preface and acknowledgements

Chapter 1. An introduction to long extraction

1.1. The movement metaphor

1.2. Long extraction - four basic factors

1.3. The four factors in linguistic theory

1.3.1. Factor I: Mobility

1.3.2. Factor II: Permeability

1.3.3. Factor III: Bridge quality

1.3.4. Factor IV: Movement type

1.4. The scope of this monograph

Chapter 2. Judgement studies

2.1. Why judgement studies?

2.2. Collecting the data

2.2.1. Designing the materials for our experiments

2.2.2. Elicitation method

2.2.3. Experimental procedure

2.3. Evaluating the data

2.3.1. Visual inspection

2.3.2. Statistical analysis

2.4. Cardinal well-formedness values

Chapter 3. Subject/object asymmetries in German

3.1. Subject/object asymmetries in dass-extractions

3.1.1. Views from the literature

3.1.2. Investigating mobility: Subject/object asymmetries with dative extraction?

3.1.3. Investigating movement type: Wh-movement versus long topicalization

3.2. Subject/object asymmetries with wh-islands

3.2.1. Views from the literature

3.2.2. Exp 3: Design

3.2.3. Exp 3: Results and discussion

3.3. An excursus on adjunct/argument asymmetries

3.3.1. Experiment 2 revisited: Design

3.3.2. Experiment 2 revisited: Results

3.4. Conclusions

Chapter 4. A controversial case

4.1. Two competing analyses

4.2. Discussion in the literature

4.3. Evidence from predicate restrictions

4.3.1. dass-extraction and controversial construction

4.3.2. Open question I: Dependent V2-clauses

4.3.3. Open question II: Other integrated parentheticals

4.3.4. Discussion

4.4. Evidence from subject/object asymmetries

4.4.1. Exp 3 revisited: Design.

4.4.2. Exp 3 revisited: Results

4.4.3. Exp 3 revisited: Discussion

4.4.4. Excursus: Featherston's interpretation of similar data

4.5. Conclusions

Chapter 5. Locating the explanation for the subject/object asymmetry in the matrix clause

5.1. The role of morphological case-marking

5.1.1. The predictions of Andersson &amp

Kvam (1984)

5.1.2. Our experimental approach to the agreement clash hypothesis

5.2. The role of local ambiguity

5.2.1. Fanselow &amp

Frisch (2006)

5.2.2. Subject/object asymmetries with interrogative pronouns

5.2.3. Extraction from infinitival clauses as the source of local ambiguity

5.3. Case-ambiguous extracted DPs in self-paced reading studies

5.3.1. Farke (1994)

5.3.2. Contra Farke (1994)

5.4. Judgement studies on case-ambiguous extracted DPs

5.4.1. A first study on case-ambiguous extracted elements

5.4.2. Comparing case-ambiguous and case-unambiguous extracted DPs

5.4.3. General remarks on testing case-ambiguous extracted DPs

5.5. Our extraction data and the `good enough' approach

5.5.1. A general outline of the `good enough' approach

5.5.2. Applying the `good enough' approach to our extraction data in general

5.5.3. Applying the `good enough' approach to experiment 9

5.6. Conclusions

Chapter 6. Locating the explanation for the subject/object asymmetry in the embedded clause

6.1. Considering the constellation in the embedded clause

6.1.1. Exp 10: Design

6.1.2. Exp 10: Results

6.1.3. The `good enough' approach revisited

6.1.4. Summary

6.2. Characteristics of the extraction site

6.3. Testing long extraction of `atypical' subjects

6.3.1. An experiment on ND- versus DN-verbs

6.3.2. A study on long extraction in passive and unaccusative contexts

6.3.3. A follow-up study on subject extraction in passive contexts.

6.3.4. Overall conclusion from experiment 12 and 13

6.4. Testing the interaction of scrambling and long extraction

6.4.1. Exp 14: Design

6.4.2. Exp 14: Results and discussion

6.4.3. Summary

6.5. The LA-account revisited

6.6. Conclusion

Chapter 7. Conclusions

The parenthesis versus extraction debate

Subject/object asymmetries in long extractions

Experimental evidence for accounts A to C

On the indispensability of accounts A to C

On the causal character of accounts A to C

Comparing long extraction in English and in German

Extraction contexts other than long wh-movement

Final remarks

Bibliography

Appendix A

Cardinal value examples

Experiment 1

Experiment 2

Experiment 3

Experiment 4

Experiment 5

Experiment 6

Experiment 7

Experiment 8

Experiment 9

Experiment 10

Experiment 11

Experiment 12

Experiment 13

Experiment 14

Index

The series Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612721625

9781282721623

1282721623

9789027287946

9027287945

OCLC:

663887183