Ken Ramshøj Christensen

Biographic Data

ID3076211
NAMEKen Ramshøj Christensen
GIVEN NAMESKen Ramshøj
FAMILY NAMEChristensen
SIGNATURECHRISTENSEN K R
AFFILIATIONSAarhus University
ORCID0000-0001-8758-240X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS12
TOTAL CITATIONS12
AUTHOR COUNT12
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2013
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX2

  • Alternative agreement in Danish—mismatch without intervention

    Open AccessKen Ramshøj Christensen, Anne Mette NyvadARTICLEFrontiers in Language Sciences2025

    This study investigates “alternative agreement” in Danish, where predicative adjectives sometimes agree with the object of a preposition (P-Obj) rather than the subject. Unlike English “mismatch agreement” Danish alternative agreement occurs without linear intervention between the competing elements. Three experiments examine this phenomenon: two sentence-completion tasks (with fronted vs. in-situ P-Obj) and an acceptability judgment task. Result…

  • Entering Foreign Lands: How Acceptable Is Extraction from Adjunct Clauses to L1 Users of English in L2 Danish

    Open AccessAnne Mette Nyvad, Ken Ramshøj ChristensenARTICLELanguages2025References: 44

    Adjunct clauses have traditionally been assumed to be syntactic configurations from which extraction is universally impossible. However, numerous studies have challenged this assumption and extraction from finite adjunct clauses has been shown to be acceptable to varying degrees in the Mainland Scandinavian languages, as well as in English. The relative acceptability of extraction appears to depend on a number of factors, including the type of ad…

  • Complexity, frequency, and acceptability

    Open AccessKen Ramshøj Christensen, Anne Mette NyvadARTICLEGlossa a journal of general…2024

    It is sometimes argued that (certain types of) lexical frequency and constructional frequency determine how easy sentences are to process and hence, how acceptable speakers find them. Others have argued that grammatical principles interact with and often override such effects. Here, we present the results from a survey on Danish with more than 200 participants. We asked people to provide acceptability ratings of a number of sentences with varying…

  • Recent Advances in Research on Island Phenomena

    Open AccessAnne Mette Nyvad, Ken Ramshøj ChristensenARTICLELanguages2023References: 22

    In natural languages, syntactic elements can, in principle, be linked across an unbounded distance, as exemplified by filler-gap dependencies (also known as extractions or movement operations

  • The Island Is Still There: Experimental Evidence For The Inescapability Of Relative Clauses In English

    Open AccessKen Ramshøj Christensen, Anne Mette NyvadARTICLEStudia Linguistica2022

    It is standardly assumed that relative clauses are islands for extraction in English, and that constraints on extraction from syntactic islands are universal. However, it has been shown that the Mainland Scandinavian languages provide a large variety of counterexamples. This study investigates the island status of English relative clauses in the light of these counterexamples. 190 native speakers provided acceptability judgments on a 5‐point Like…

  • Too True to Be Good? The Non-Uniformity of Extraction from Adjunct Clauses in English

    Open AccessAnne Mette Nyvad, Christiane Müller et al.ARTICLELanguages2022Cited by: 2References: 60

    Adjunct clauses are traditionally assumed to be strong islands for extraction across languages. However, the universal island status of adjunct clauses has been challenged by studies showing that extraction is possible from finite adjunct clauses in the Mainland Scandinavian languages. The possibility of extraction in these languages appears to be affected by various factors, including the type of adjunct clause, the type of extraction dependency…

  • The Neurology of Negation: fMRI, ERP, and aphasia

    Ken Ramshøj ChristensenCHAPTEROxford Handbook of Negation2020

    This chapter provides an overview of psycho- and neurolinguistic studies on negation with healthy adult speakers, as well as studies on patients with focal brain damage. Semantically, negation inverts the truth value and the direction of entailment, and it is associated with a more complex syntactic structure. Behavioral evidence shows that negative sentences are associated with increased complexity and processing load. In the ERP data, an unlice…

  • CP-recursion in Danish: A cP/CP-analysis

    Anne Mette Nyvad, Ken Ramshøj Christensen et al.ARTICLEThe Linguistic Review2017

    Based on data from extraction, embedded V2, and complementizer stacking, this paper proposes a

  • A Verbal Illusion: Now in Three Languages

    Open AccessJohannes Kizach, Ken Ramshøj Christensen et al.ARTICLEJournal of Psycholinguistic…2016References: 25

  • (Non-)Arguments in Long-Distance Extractions

    Open AccessAnne Mette Nyvad, Johannes Kizach et al.ARTICLEJournal of Psycholinguistic…2015Cited by: 2References: 26

  • On the nature of escapable relative islands

    Open AccessKen Ramshøj Christensen, Anne Mette NyvadARTICLENordic Journal of Linguistics2014

    It is generally assumed that universal island constraints block extraction from relative clauses. However, it is well-known that such extractions can be acceptable in the Scandinavian languages. Kush & Lindahl (2011) argue that the acceptability in Swedish is illusory; relative clauses that allow extraction have a different structure (small clause structure) from those that block extraction (true relatives, CPs). We present data from an acceptabi…

  • Escape from the Island: Grammaticality and (Reduced) Acceptability of wh-island Violations in Danish

    Open AccessKen Ramshøj Christensen, Johannes Kizach et al.ARTICLEJournal of Psycholinguistic…2013Cited by: 8References: 32