The Decathlon Model of Empirical Syntax

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Evidence in Linguistics 1
4. Gradedness and Consistency in Grammaticality Judgments 7
5. Null Subjects and Verb Placement in Old High German 27
6. Beauty and the Beast: What Running a Broad-Coverage Precision Grammar over the BNC Taught Us about the Grammar — and the Corpus 49
7. Seemingly Indefinite Definites 71
8. Animacy as a Driving Cue in Change and Acquisition in Brazilian Portuguese 87
9. Aspectual Coercion and On-line Processing: The Case of Iteration 105
10. Why Do Children Fail to Understand Weak Epistemic Terms? An Experimental Study 123
11. Processing Negative Polarity Items: When Negation Comes Through the Backdoor 145
12. Linguistic Constraints on the Acquisition of Epistemic Modal Verbs 165
13. The Decathlon Model of Empirical Syntax 187
14. Examining the Constraints on the Benefactive Alternation by Using the World Wide Web as a Corpus 209
15. A Quantitative Corpus Study of German Word Order Variation 241
16. Which Statistics Reflect Semantics? Rethinking Synonymy and Word Similarity 265
17. Language Production Errors as Evidence for Language Production Processes – The Frankfurt Corpora 285
18. A Multi-Evidence Study of European and Brazilian Portuguese wh-Questions 307
19. The Relationship between Grammaticality Ratings and Corpus Frequencies: A Case Study into Word Order Variability in the Midfield of German Clauses 329
20. The Emergence of Productive Non-Medical -itis: Corpus Evidence and Qualitative Analysis 351
21. Experimental Data vs. Diachronic Typological Data: Two Types of Evidence for Linguistic Relativity 371
22. Reflexives and Pronouns in Picture Noun Phrases: Using Eye Movements as a Source of Linguistic Evidence 393
23. The Plural is Semantically Unmarked 413
24. Coherence – an Experimental Approach 435
25. Thinking About What We Are Asking Speakers to Do 457
26. A Prosodic Factor for the Decline of Topicalisation in English 485
27. On the Syntax of DP Coordination: Combining Evidence from Reading-Time Studies and Agrammatic Comprehension 507
28. Lexical Statistics and Lexical Processing: Semantic Density, Information Complexity, Sex, and Irregularity in Dutch 529
29. The Double Competence Hypothesis On Diachronic Evidence 557
30. Backmatter 577