Extraction asymmetries : experimental evidence from German /
This monograph addresses divergent views in the linguistic literature on whether German displays the that-trace effect and other subject/object asymmetries commonly found for long extractions in English and other languages. Using newly developed rating methodologies, the author exposes consistent an...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
©2010.
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Colección: | Linguistik aktuell ;
Bd. 163. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | This monograph addresses divergent views in the linguistic literature on whether German displays the that-trace effect and other subject/object asymmetries commonly found for long extractions in English and other languages. Using newly developed rating methodologies, the author exposes consistent and robust subject/object asymmetries in German - a surprisingly unequivocal result given that the existence of these effects is controversial. This finding raises important questions: how can one account for the discrepancy between the clear experimental evidence on the one hand, and the lack of cons. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvi, 273 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9789027287946 9027287945 9027255466 9789027255464 1282721623 9781282721623 9786612721625 6612721626 |
ISSN: | 0166-0829 ; |