Questions with long-distance dependencies: A usage-based perspective
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Ewa Dąbrowska
Abstract
Attested questions with long-distance dependencies (e.g., What do you think you're doing?) tend to be quite stereotypical: the matrix clause usually consists of a WH word, the auxiliary do or did, the pronoun you, and the verb think or say, with no other elements; and they virtually never contain more than one subordinate clause. This has lead some researchers in the usage-based framework (Dąbrowska 2004; Verhagen 2005) to hypothesise that speakers' knowledge about such constructions is best explained in terms of relatively specific, low level templates rather than general rules that apply “across the board”. The research reported here was designed to test this hypothesis and alternative hypotheses derived from rule-based theories.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Introduction
- The island status of clausal complements: Evidence in favor of an information structure explanation
- Questions with long-distance dependencies: A usage-based perspective
- Lexical chunking effects in syntactic processing
- Initial parsing decisions and lexical bias: Corpus evidence from local NP/S-ambiguities
- Iconicity of sequence: A corpus-based analysis of the positioning of temporal adverbial clauses in English
- New evidence against the modularity of grammar: Constructions, collocations, and speech perception
- Negative entrenchment: A usage-based approach to negative evidence
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Introduction
- The island status of clausal complements: Evidence in favor of an information structure explanation
- Questions with long-distance dependencies: A usage-based perspective
- Lexical chunking effects in syntactic processing
- Initial parsing decisions and lexical bias: Corpus evidence from local NP/S-ambiguities
- Iconicity of sequence: A corpus-based analysis of the positioning of temporal adverbial clauses in English
- New evidence against the modularity of grammar: Constructions, collocations, and speech perception
- Negative entrenchment: A usage-based approach to negative evidence
