Evidence for Traces
Do Wh-Traces exist?
Readings:
-
Sag, Ivan A., and Janet D. Fodor. 1994. Extraction
Without Traces. In Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual Meeting of the
West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. Stanford: CSLI
Publications. (Just read sections 1 and 2) (.pdf
file)
- Pullum, Geoffrey K. 1997. The Morpholexical Nature of English
to-Contraction. Language 73: 79--102.
(.pdf
file)
- Sag, Ivan A. 2000.
Another Argument Against Wh-Trace.
Jorge Hankamer Webfest
(.html file).
Further Readings:
- Postal, Paul M., and Geoffrey K. Pullum. 197. The Contraction
Debate.
Linguistic Inquiry 13: 122-138.
- Labov, William. 1996. When Intuitions Fail. Section on
wanna contraction. (read only first 7.3 pages) (.pdf
file)
- Martin Pickering & Guy Barry. 1991. Sentence processing without
empty categories. Language and Cognitive Processes
- Edward Gibson and Gregory Hickok. 1993. Sentence Processing With Empty
Categories. Language and Cognitive Processes 8: 147--161.
- Gorrell, Paul. 1993. Evaluating the Direct Association
Hypothesis: A Reply
to Pickering and Barry. Language and Cognitive Processes 8:
129--146.

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