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Long extraction or parenthetical insertion? Evidence from judgement studies

  • Tanja Kiziak
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Abstract

There has been a long-standing discussion of German constructions such as Wer glaubst du hat Recht? They could either be analysed as a host clause Wer hat Recht? plus parenthetical insert glaubst du or as a long extraction from a verb-second clause. We contribute to this debate by using the magnitude estimation technique to test whether the predicate restrictions advanced in favour of the parenthetical analysis (Reis 1995) are borne out in judgement studies. We will see that the overall tendencies of our experiments favour the parenthetical account.

Abstract

There has been a long-standing discussion of German constructions such as Wer glaubst du hat Recht? They could either be analysed as a host clause Wer hat Recht? plus parenthetical insert glaubst du or as a long extraction from a verb-second clause. We contribute to this debate by using the magnitude estimation technique to test whether the predicate restrictions advanced in favour of the parenthetical analysis (Reis 1995) are borne out in judgement studies. We will see that the overall tendencies of our experiments favour the parenthetical account.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Preface vii
  4. List of contributors ix
  5. Parentheticals 1
  6. SYNTAX AND ITS INTERFACES
  7. Spoken parenthetical clauses in English 25
  8. Integrated parentheticals and assertional complements 53
  9. The complement of reduced parentheticals 89
  10. Long extraction or parenthetical insertion? Evidence from judgement studies 121
  11. And -parenthetical clauses 145
  12. On the syntax and semantics of appositive relative clauses 173
  13. Invisible constituents? Parentheticals as b-merged adverbial phrases 203
  14. SEMANTICS/PRAGMATICS AND THEIR INTERFACES
  15. Reduced parenthetical clauses in Romance languages: A pragmatic typology 237
  16. PROSODY AND ITS INTERFACES
  17. The relation between syntactic and prosodic parenthesis 261
  18. Quieter, faster, lower, and set off by pauses? Reflections on prosodic aspects of parenthetical constructions in modern German 285
  19. Name Index 309
  20. Subject Index 311
https://doi.org/10.1075/la.106.08kiz

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Preface vii
  4. List of contributors ix
  5. Parentheticals 1
  6. SYNTAX AND ITS INTERFACES
  7. Spoken parenthetical clauses in English 25
  8. Integrated parentheticals and assertional complements 53
  9. The complement of reduced parentheticals 89
  10. Long extraction or parenthetical insertion? Evidence from judgement studies 121
  11. And -parenthetical clauses 145
  12. On the syntax and semantics of appositive relative clauses 173
  13. Invisible constituents? Parentheticals as b-merged adverbial phrases 203
  14. SEMANTICS/PRAGMATICS AND THEIR INTERFACES
  15. Reduced parenthetical clauses in Romance languages: A pragmatic typology 237
  16. PROSODY AND ITS INTERFACES
  17. The relation between syntactic and prosodic parenthesis 261
  18. Quieter, faster, lower, and set off by pauses? Reflections on prosodic aspects of parenthetical constructions in modern German 285
  19. Name Index 309
  20. Subject Index 311
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