Does Dutch a-scrambling involve movement? Evidence from antecedent priming
- The present study focuses on A-scrambling in Dutch, a local word-order alternation that typically signals the discourse-anaphoric status of the scrambled constituent. We use cross-modal priming to investigate whether an A-scrambled direct object gives rise to antecedent reactivation effects in the position where a movement theory would postulate a trace. Our results indicate that this is not the case, thereby providing support for a base-generation analysis of A-scrambling in Dutch.
| Author details: | Hans van de KootORCiDGND, Renita Silva, Claudia FelserORCiDGND, Mikako Sato |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1515/tlr-2015-0010 |
| ISSN: | 0167-6318 |
| ISSN: | 1613-3676 |
| Title of parent work (English): | The linguistic review |
| Publisher: | De Gruyter Mouton |
| Place of publishing: | Berlin |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first publication: | 2015 |
| Publication year: | 2015 |
| Release date: | 2017/03/27 |
| Tag: | cross-modal priming; movement; scrambling |
| Volume: | 32 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| Number of pages: | 38 |
| First page: | 739 |
| Last Page: | 776 |
| Funding institution: | Arts and Humanities Research Council [AH/I017763/1] |
| 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 |
