TY - JOUR A1 - Schlesewsky, Matthias A1 - Frisch, Stefan T1 - Nominative case as a multidimensional default T2 - Linguistics in Potsdam N2 - The present paper addresses a current view in the psycholinguistic literature that case exhibits processing properties distinct from those of other morphological features such as number (cf. Fodor & Inoue, 2000; Meng & Bader, 2000a/b). In a speeded-acceptability judgement experiment, we show that the low performance previously found for case in contrast to number violations is limited to nominative case, whereas violations involving accusative and dative are judged more accurately. The data thus do not support the proposal that case per se is associated with special properties (in contrast to other features such as number) in reanalysis processes. Rather, there are significant judgement differences between the object cases accusative and dative on the one hand and the subject nominative case on the other. This may be explained by the fact that nominative has a specific status in German (and many other languages) as a default case. Y1 - 2009 UR - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/3073 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-32447 SN - 1616-7392 IS - 21 SP - 61 EP - 72 ER -