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Word formation is syntactic: Raising in nominalizations
Glossa, 2018 According to Chomsky (1970), raising to subject and raising to object may not take place inside nominalizations. This claim has largely been accepted as fact ever since.
Benjamin Bruening
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The effect of three basic task features on the sensitivity of acceptability judgment tasks
Glossa, 2020 Sprouse and Almeida (2017) provide a first systematic investigation of the sensitivity of four acceptability judgment tasks. In this project, we build on these results by decomposing those tasks into three constituent task features (single versus joint ...
Emmanuel Chemla, Jon Sprouse, Paul Marty
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Strategies of participle agreement with conjoined subjects in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian
Linguistica, 2016 In this paper, we demonstrate that Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian (BCS), like Slovenian, has three distinct strategies of subject-predicate agreement when the subject consists of conjoined noun phrases: 1.
Nedžad Leko +7 more
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The Relationship between Syntactic Satiation and Syntactic Priming: A First Look
Frontiers in Psychology, 2017 Syntactic satiation is the phenomenon where some sentences that initially seem ungrammatical appear more acceptable after repeated exposures (Snyder, 2000).
Monica L. Do, Elsi Kaiser
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On the Nature of Syntactic Satiation
Languages, 2022 In syntactic satiation, a linguist initially judges a sentence type to be unacceptable but begins to accept it after judging multiple examples over time.
William Snyder
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The effect of coordinate structure on the licensing of čto-clauses in noun complement constructions: An experimental study [PDF]
Rhema. Рема, 2020 Previously, čto-clause complements of nouns were found to be more acceptable in constructions with collocations as opposed to non-collocations, which was taken to support the hypothesis whereby čto-clauses are introduced by a silent preposition ...
M. Knyazev
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The island/non-island distinction in long-distance extraction: Evidence from L2 acceptability
Glossa, 2022 Experimental studies regularly find that extraction out of an embedded clause (“long-distance extraction”) results in a substantial degradation in acceptability but that the degradation is much greater when the embedded clause is an island structure.
Boyoung Kim, Grant Goodall
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Glossa, 2020 There is a growing experimental and theoretical literature on singular they, much of it focusing on the nature of the antecedents it takes (Foertsch & Gernsbacher 1997; Bjorkman 2017; Doherty & Conklin 2017; Prasad 2017; Ackerman et al.
Chung-Hye Han +4 more
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Syntax of Dutch: Adpositions and Adpositional Phrases [PDF]
, 2013 The volume Adpositions and Adpositional Phrases discusses the internal make-up and the distribution of adpositional phrases. Topics that are covered include complementation and modification of adpositional phrases, as well as their predicative ...
Hans Broekhuis, Broekhuis, Hans
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