Animacy effects on crossing wh-movement in German
- This article presents several acceptability rating experiments concerned with crossing wh-movement in German multiple questions. Our results show that there is no general superiority effect in German, thus refuting claims to the contrary by Featherston (2005). However, acceptability is reduced when a whphrase crosses a wh-subject with which it agrees in animacy. We explain this finding in terms of the availability of different sorting keys for the answers to the multiple questions.
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| Author details: | Gisbert Franselow, Matthias Schlesewsky, Ralf Vogel, Thomas Weskott |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-93630 |
| Publication series (Volume number): | Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe (299) |
| Publication type: | Postprint |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first publication: | 2016 |
| Publication year: | 2011 |
| Publishing institution: | Universität Potsdam |
| Release date: | 2016/08/02 |
| First page: | 657 |
| Last Page: | 683 |
| Source: | Linguistics : an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences. - DOI: 10.1515/LING.2011.021 |
| Organizational units: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften / Department Linguistik |
| DDC classification: | 4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache |
| Peer review: | Referiert |
| Publishing method: | Open Access |
| License (German): |  Keine öffentliche Lizenz: Unter Urheberrechtsschutz |
