Universals and grammaticality
Wh-constraints in German and English
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 3987550 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Sam Featherston (autor correspondente) |
| Ano | 2005 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Fascículo | 4 |
| Data de publicação | 2005-01-20 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Sim |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | Linguistics (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 0024-3949 • E-ISSN: 1613-396X |
| Editora | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/ling.2005.43.4.667 |
| OpenAlex | W1990940526 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 32 |
| Referências citadas | 10 |
In this article we investigate the movement constraints superiority and discourse linking. These have played an important role in the tradition of generative syntax and might therefore be expected to be universal, but they are usually argued to be absent from German. We looked for evidence of them in German data using the methodology of magnitude estimation of wellformedness, and compared this data with parallel results from English. The results showed these effects to be robustly active in the grammar of German, and revealed few differences between the two languages. We suggest that the reason why linguists have denied their existence in German is that they have been assuming a binary and categorical concept of grammaticality, forgetting that this is merely a simplifying abstraction from the primary linguistic data. We demonstrate that the admittedly convenient assumption of categorical grammaticality is obscuring our view of the syntax, and that studies using our own more empirically adequate assumptions of grammaticality can be productive. In particular, we hope that our conceptions of constraint survivability and definition of syntax relevance may permit insights into the size of the grammar, crosslinguistic variation, and syntactic universals
Categorical variable · Generative grammar · German · Grammar · Grammaticality · Linguistic universal · Linguistics · Optimality theory · Phonology · Syntax · Computer Science · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
Syntactic variation in German wh-questions
Bridge verbs and V2 verbs – the same thing in spades
Cross-linguistic Variation in a Processing Account
Copy Raising in English, German, and Dutch
Using two-alternative forced choice tasks and Thurstone’s law of comparative judgments for code-switching research
Questions with long-distance dependencies
Aspects of Japanese loanword devoicing
Carrots – perfect as vegetables, but please not as a main dish
Data in generative grammar
Empirical evidence and theoretical reasoning in generative grammar
Data and grammar
Naive v. expert intuitions
A test of the relation between working-memory capacity and syntactic island effects
A Test of the Cognitive Assumptions of Magnitude Estimation
Asymmetric Movement in Raising-to-Object Structures
Subliminal wh-islands in brazilian Portuguese and the consequenceS for Syntactic theory
A validation of Amazon Mechanical Turk for the collection of acceptability judgments in linguistic theory
Zur Interpretation adnominaler Genitive bei nominalisierten Infinitiven im Deutschen
Formalising syntactic variability
Assessing the reliability of textbook data in syntax
Toward a model of grammaticality judgments
Escape from the Island
Constraint cumulativity and gradience
Animacy effects on crossing wh-movement in German
Reverse Island Effects and the Backward Search for a Licensor in Multiple Wh-Questions
Superiority in English and German
On the Syntax of Multiple Sluicing and What It Tells Us aboutWh-Scope Taking
Trace in German
A New Diagnostic for CyclicWh-Movement
Adding a Third Wh-phrase Does Not Increase the Acceptability of Object-initial Multiple-wh-questions
A comparison of informal and formal acceptability judgments using a random sample from Linguistic Inquiry 2001-2010
Magnitude estimation and what it can do for your syntax
Knowledge of language
On the Nature of Proper Government
Schiitze, C.T., The Empirical Base of Linguistics. Grammaticality Judgements and Linguistic Methodology
Irregularity in Syntax
Word Order and Constituent Structure in German
Features, θ-Roles, and Free Constituent Order
Multiple Wh-Fronting
On the syntax of english echo questions
Magnitude Estimation of Linguistic Acceptability
| Obras citantes distintas | 32 |
|---|---|
| Citações por ano | 1,45 |
| Intervalo de citações | 2004 - 2023 (20) |
| Velocidade de citação | historical |
| Altamente citado | Não |
| Tipos de citação | Neutras: 29 |