Thomas Weskott
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 790342 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Thomas Weskott |
| PRENOMES | Thomas |
| SOBRENOME | Weskott |
| ASSINATURA | WESKOTT T |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Potsdam |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 5 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 10 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 5 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2011 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Commonalities and Differences in the Interpretation of Predicates of Personal Taste vs. Relational Locative Expressions
We compare two types of expressions that have been claimed to exhibit perspective-sensitivity in their semantics, predicates of personal taste like, e.g., fun , or tasty , with relational locative expressions as, e.g., to the left of , with respect to their semantic properties. While, at first blush, there are some properties shared by the two classes of expressions, the differences in semantic behaviour between them outweigh the commonalities. H…
Das Doppelperfekt
The article concentrates on the German double perfect forms and tries to find an answer to the following question: is it possible to show that – contrary to traditional assumptions – the German double perfect is a systematical and therefore acceptable verbal form of German? First, the question will be substantiated by four experiments and will get an empirical answer. Secondly, a syntactic and semantic analysis of the double forms will be propose…
Effects of focus and definiteness on children's word order
Two experiments tested how faithfully German children aged 4 ;5 to 5 ;6 reproduce ditransitive sentences that are unmarked or marked with respect to word order and focus (Exp1) or definiteness (Exp2). Adopting an optimality theory (OT) approach, it is assumed that in the German adult grammar word order is ranked lower than focus and definiteness. Faithfulness of children's reproductions decreased as markedness of inputs increased; unmarked struct…
Animacy effects on crossing wh-movement in German
This article presents several acceptability rating experiments concerned with crossing wh-movement in German multiple questions. Our results show that there is no general superiority effect in German, thus refuting claims to the contrary by Featherston (2005). However, acceptability is reduced when a wh-phrase crosses a wh-subject with which it agrees in animacy. We explain this finding in terms of the availability of different sorting keys for t…
On the Informativity of Different Measures of Linguistic Acceptability
This article deals with the claim that the magnitude estimation (ME) method of gathering acceptability judgments produces data that are more informative for linguists than binary or n -point scale judgments. We performed three acceptability-rating experiments that directly compared ME data to binary and seven-point scale data. The results clearly falsify the hypothesis that data gathered by the ME method carry a larger amount of information about…
On the Informativity of Different Measures of Linguistic Acceptability
This article deals with the claim that the magnitude estimation (ME) method of gathering acceptability judgments produces data that are more informative for linguists than binary or n -point scale judgments. We performed three acceptability-rating experiments that directly compared ME data to binary and seven-point scale data. The results clearly falsify the hypothesis that data gathered by the ME method carry a larger amount of information about…
Animacy effects on crossing wh-movement in German
This article presents several acceptability rating experiments concerned with crossing wh-movement in German multiple questions. Our results show that there is no general superiority effect in German, thus refuting claims to the contrary by Featherston (2005). However, acceptability is reduced when a wh-phrase crosses a wh-subject with which it agrees in animacy. We explain this finding in terms of the availability of different sorting keys for t…
Animacy effects on crossing wh-movement in German
This article presents several acceptability rating experiments concerned with crossing wh-movement in German multiple questions. Our results show that there is no general superiority effect in German, thus refuting claims to the contrary by Featherston (2005). However, acceptability is reduced when a wh-phrase crosses a wh-subject with which it agrees in animacy. We explain this finding in terms of the availability of different sorting keys for t…
On the Informativity of Different Measures of Linguistic Acceptability
This article deals with the claim that the magnitude estimation (ME) method of gathering acceptability judgments produces data that are more informative for linguists than binary or n -point scale judgments. We performed three acceptability-rating experiments that directly compared ME data to binary and seven-point scale data. The results clearly falsify the hypothesis that data gathered by the ME method carry a larger amount of information about…
Effects of focus and definiteness on children's word order
Two experiments tested how faithfully German children aged 4 ;5 to 5 ;6 reproduce ditransitive sentences that are unmarked or marked with respect to word order and focus (Exp1) or definiteness (Exp2). Adopting an optimality theory (OT) approach, it is assumed that in the German adult grammar word order is ranked lower than focus and definiteness. Faithfulness of children's reproductions decreased as markedness of inputs increased; unmarked struct…
Das Doppelperfekt
The article concentrates on the German double perfect forms and tries to find an answer to the following question: is it possible to show that – contrary to traditional assumptions – the German double perfect is a systematical and therefore acceptable verbal form of German? First, the question will be substantiated by four experiments and will get an empirical answer. Secondly, a syntactic and semantic analysis of the double forms will be propose…
Commonalities and Differences in the Interpretation of Predicates of Personal Taste vs. Relational Locative Expressions
We compare two types of expressions that have been claimed to exhibit perspective-sensitivity in their semantics, predicates of personal taste like, e.g., fun , or tasty , with relational locative expressions as, e.g., to the left of , with respect to their semantic properties. While, at first blush, there are some properties shared by the two classes of expressions, the differences in semantic behaviour between them outweigh the commonalities. H…
Linguistics (5 obras) · Computer Science (4 obras) · Philosophy (4 obras) · Psychology (4 obras) · German (3 obras) · Mathematics (3 obras) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (3 obras) · Language Development and Disorders (2 obras) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (2 obras) · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (2 obras)