The Syntactic Integration of Adverbial Clauses
Experimental Evidence from Anaphoric Relations
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Beschreibung
This work takes an experimental approach to address the notoriously puzzling attachment of adverbial clauses to their host clauses. On the basis of experiments gathering well-formedness judgements, the author shows that a multifactorial account which reflects both syntactic and processing factors is required in order to capture this complex phenomenon. The author also demonstrates that a new structural factor – “clause-command” – more successfully accounts for the anaphorical relations between clauses than traditional c-command.
This book looks at the currently keenly discussed topic of the syntactic relationships between clauses. Using experimentation to obtain a firm data basis for claims, the author examines the evidence from nominal coreference and variable binding between clauses in German. The study aims to investigate the syntactic and processing differences between the way that central adverbial clauses – for example with a temporal meaning – and peripheral adverbial clauses – which may be adversative or concessive – are attached to their main clauses.
On the basis of the experimental data, this work proposes a new structural factor of “clause-command”. The author shows that this can capture the patterns in anaphoric relationships across clausal boundaries more successfully than the traditional mechanism c-command. In particular, this new factor succeeds in providing an account of the gradient pattern of integration that we find in anaphoric interpretation across clauses.
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Sophie von Wietersheim
Themen in »The Syntactic Integration of Adverbial Clauses«
Adverbialsätze Deutsche Syntax Experimentelle Syntax German adverbial clause anaphorische Beziehungen c-command clause-command coreference generative grammar strukturelle Integration variable binding