Empty categories in sentence processing:
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Main Author: Featherston, Sam 1953- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam J. Benjamins ©2001
Series:Linguistik aktuell Bd. 43
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-274) and index
Empty Categories in Sentence Processing; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Dedication; Table of contents; Foreword; Abbreviations; Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. Empty categories in PPT and HPSG; Chapter 3. Parsers and gap processing; Chapter 4. Antecedent Reactivation and Trace; Chapter 5. NP-trace and PRO: Local ECs; Chapter 6. Evidence from sentence matching on wh -trace dependencies; Chapter 7. Conclusions; Appendix 1. Materials for CMLP Experiments 1 -3; Appendix 2. Materials for probe recognition Experiment 4; Appendix 3. Materials for ERP Experiment 5
This book reports a research program into one of the most controversial questions in the syntax -- processing interface: The behavior of the parser at gap positions. While the work done is largely experimental, the results are analyzed both for their relevance to sentence processing and for their implications for competing syntactic frameworks. In particular the differing predictions of PPT and HPSG for structures with dislocated constituents are tested for their empirical adequacy. The author addresses a broad range of questions about gap processing and uses a broad range of methodologies to c
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 277 pages)
ISBN:1588110699
9027227640
9027298246
9789027298249

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