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 wh-phrase 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.
| Author details: | Gisbert FanselowORCiDGND, Matthias Schlesewsky, Ralf Vogel, Thomas Weskott |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1515/LING.2011.021 |
| ISSN: | 0024-3949 |
| Title of parent work (English): | Linguistics : an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences |
| Publisher: | De Gruyter Mouton |
| Place of publishing: | Berlin |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first publication: | 2011 |
| Publication year: | 2011 |
| Release date: | 2017/03/26 |
| Volume: | 49 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| Number of pages: | 27 |
| First page: | 657 |
| Last Page: | 683 |
| Organizational units: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften / Department Linguistik |
| Peer review: | Referiert |
| Institution name at the time of the publication: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Linguistik / Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft |
