Case-matching effects under clausal ellipsis and the cue-based theory of sentence processing

This paper is concerned with case-matching effects under clausal ellipsis. We begin by considering available crosslinguistic data that indicate variation in case marking on a fragment delimited the argument structure of lexical head assigns to fragment’s correlate antecedent clause. then offer experimental evidence for preference Korean when and its may differ marking. corresponds known mandatory Hungarian, but their relationship not predicted any existing syntactic accounts propose novel perspective fragments derives effects, including optional matching, from predictions cue-based retrieval. Two further acceptability judgment studies are offered support our proposal.