Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. The evidential base of linguistics: Work in progress 1
4. Portuguese: Corpora, coordination and agreement 9
5. Contributing to the extraction/parenthesis debate: Judgement studies and historical data 29
6. Quantifying quantifier scope: A cross-methodological comparison 53
7. Is syntactic knowledge probabilistic? Experiments with the English dative alternation 75
8. Psycholinguistic perspectives on grammatical representations 97
9. Early language separation: A longitudinal study of a Russian-German bilingual child 133
10. ‘I need data which I can rely on’: Corroborating empirical evidence on preposition placement in English relative clauses 161
11. Locality and accessibility in wh-questions 185
12. Eye Tracking as a tool to investigate the comprehension of referential expressions 207
13. Corpus data and experimental results as prosodic evidence: On the case of stressed auch in German 227
14. The retrieval and classification of negative polarity items using statistical profiles 249
15. Geographic distributions of linguistic variationreflect dynamics of differentiation 267
16. Focus and verb order in Early New High German: Historical and contemporary evidence 299
17. Contrastive topics in pairing answers: A cross-linguistic production study 319
18. Coordinate structures: On the relationship between parsing preferences and corpus frequencies 341
19. Adverbs and sentence topics in processing English 361
20. Backmatter 375