Erasability and interpretation
- This paper corroborates the interpretability proposal of Chomsky (1995) with evidence from scrambling in Japanese and German. First it is shown that scrambling in Japanese is semantically vacuous, whereas scrambling in German is semantically contentful. Chomsky’s proposal then predicts that the feature driving Japanese scrambling is erased after checking, while the corresponding feature in German remains visible, specifically for the Shortest Attract condition. Looking at patterns of movement that result in overlapping paths, this prediction is seen to be correct.
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| Author: | Uli Sauerland |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-385914 |
| URL: | https://docs.google.com/open?id=0Bz8d8ZE7fhuTRWgxbHRkeGpCTUk |
| ISSN: | 1467-9612 |
| ISSN: | 1368-0005 |
| Parent Title (English): | Syntax |
| Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell |
| Place of publication: | Oxford |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of Completion: | 1999 |
| Year of first Publication: | 1999 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2015/11/18 |
| GND Keyword: | Generative Transformationsgrammatik; Funktionale Kategorie; Scrambling; Wortstellung; Deutsch; Japanisch |
| Volume: | 2 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Page Number: | 28 |
| First Page: | 161 |
| Last Page: | 188 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 372290345 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 4 Sprache / 41 Linguistik / 410 Linguistik |
| Sammlungen: | Linguistik |
| Linguistik-Klassifikation: | Linguistik-Klassifikation: Syntax |
| Linguistik-Klassifikation: Grammatikforschung / Grammar research | |
| Licence (German): |  Deutsches Urheberrecht |
