Monday: 23 July
Superiority Effects
Chomsky's Superiority Condition. Observations by Karttunen, Bolinger
and others. Pesetsky's response. The explanatory inadequacy of
D-Linking, the Principle of Minimal Compliance, etc.
The Processing-based alternative. Cross-linguistic variation in
Superiority effects.
Readings:
-
Hofmeister, Philip, T. Florian
Jaeger, Ivan A. Sag, Inbal Arnon, and Neal
Snider. Locality and Accessibility in Wh-Questions. To
appear in
Roots: Linguistics in Search of its Evidential Base,
ed. by Sam Featherston and Wolfgang Sternefeld.
Berlin: de Gruyter. Provisional date: 2007.
(.pdf
file).
- Arnon, Inbal, Neal Snider, Philip Hofmeister, T. Florian
Jaeger, and Ivan A. Sag. Cross-Linguistic Variation
in a Processing Account: The Case of Multiple Wh-Questions. To
appear in the proceedings of BLS 32. (.pdf
file).
- Featherston, Sam. 2005. Magnitude estimation and what it can do for your
syntax: Some wh-constraints in German. Lingua 115: 1525-1550.
(
.pdf file)
Further Reading:
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