Empty categories in sentence processing / / Sam Featherston

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910815915603321
• Autore: Featherston Sam
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins, c2001
• ISBN: 1-282-16254-3; 9786612162541; 90-272-9824-6
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (295 p.)
• Collana: Linguistik aktuell = Linguistics today ; ; v. 43
• Disciplina: 415
• Soggetti: Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax; Grammar, Comparative and general - Sentences; Principles and parameters (Linguistics); Head-driven phrase structure grammar
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-274) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 -- Appendix 4. Materials for sentence matching Experiment 6 -- References -- Index -- LINGUISTIK AKTUELL/LINGUISTICS TODAY (LA).
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 cut through the confounds which prevent previous work providing clear answers. Wh-movement, scrambling, raising, and equi structures are all addressed, and all current accounts of the experimental evidence evaluated. The results move the debate forward significantly, and provide clear confirmation of some non-trivial claims of generative grammar.