Repository: OpenScienceRepository
Depends: R (>= 2.14)
Date: 2014-01-01 00:00:00
Title: Constituent Order in German Multiple Questions: Normal Order and (Apparent) Anti-Superiority Effects
Description: In many languages of the world, in particular those with a clause-final positioning of the verb, the order of the constituents of a clause is fairly free. Nevertheless, clauses have an "unmarked" or "normal" arrangement of their constituents in most of these free constituent order languages - polysynthetic languages such as Mohawk are a notable exception (Baker, 1996).  The present paper is concerned with the factors that determine whether a given constituent order is unmarked or not. In particular, we report a series of judgment experiments concerned with constituent order preferences in German multiple questions. Their results show that multiple questions are a further, hitherto unknown, argument for the claim that normal order is not just determined by (semantic) role but also by cast: normal word order for wh-phrases differs from normal word order in simple declaratives. We will offer an attempt of an explanation for this difference in terms of a hierarchy of Case assigning heads in the final section of the paper.    LE-Proceedings  
Author: Gisbert Fanselow and Jana Haeussler and Thomas Weskott
Maintainer: Gisbert Fanselow <gisbert.fanselow@gmail.com>
Authors@R: c(person(given ="Gisbert", family = "Fanselow", email = "gisbert.fanselow@gmail.com", role = c("aut", "cre")), person(given ="Jana", family = "Haeussler", role = c("aut")), person(given ="Thomas", family = "Weskott", role = c("aut")))
Package: FanselowHaeusslerWeskott2014
Version: 1.0
License: CC BY-NC (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/de/)
