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Permeable islands : a contrastive study of Swedish and English adjunct clause extractions / Christiane Müller.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Müller, Christiane.
Series:
Lundastudier i nordisk spraakvetenskap. A ; 80.
Lundastudier i nordisk spraakvetenskap. A, 0347-8971 ; 80
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Swedish language--Clauses.
Swedish language.
Swedish language--Discourse analysis.
Swedish language--Syntax.
Grammar, Comparative and general--Adjuncts.
Grammar, Comparative and general.
English language--Clauses.
English language.
English language--Discourse analysis.
English language--Syntax.
Contrastive linguistics.
Swedish language--Grammar, Comparative--English.
English language--Grammar, Comparative--Swedish.
English language--Grammar, Comparative.
Grammar, Comparative and general--Clauses.
Physical Description:
283 pages ; 24 cm + 1 leaf.
Place of Publication:
Lund : Lund University, [2019]
Language Note:
Includes Swedish summary.
Contents:
Introduction
Adjunct islands
Aʼ-dependencies and island constraints
Adjunct clauses
Theoretical approaches to adjunct island effects
Conditions on adjunct clause extraction
Summary
Island extraction in Mainland Scandinavian
The case of Mainland Scandinavian
Previous research on island extraction in MSc
Genuine extractions?
An acceptability judgment study for Swedish
Predictions
Method
Results
Discussion
The role of coherence and finiteness
Coherence
Finiteness
Experiment 1 : Swedish adjunct clause extractions
Experiment 2 : English adjunct clause extractions
Deriving the coherence effect
Deriving the finiteness effect
The permeability hypothesis
Processing of island constraint information
Experiment 3 : Real-time processing of extraction in English
Summary and loose ends
Summary of findings
Adjunct islandhood
The permeability of central adjuncts
Revisiting peripheral adjuncts
Cross-linguistic variation in island effects
Consequences for theories of adjunct islands
Sammanfattning på svenska
References
Questionnaire
Critical items for Experiment 1
Critical items for Experiment 2
Critical items for Experiment 3.
Notes:
Thesis (doctoral)--University Lund, 2019.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-233).
Other Format:
electronic book (general) version
ISBN:
9789188899347
9188899349
OCLC:
1114258343
Publisher Number:
9789188899347

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