Processing Relative Clause Extractions in Swedish

Processing Relative Clause Extractions in Swedish

Relative clauses are considered strong islands for extraction across languages. Swedish comprises a well-known exception, allegedly allowing extraction from relative clauses (RCE), raising the possibility that island constraints may be subject to "deep variation" between languages. One alternative is that such exceptions are only illusory and represent "surface variation" attributable to indepe...

Relative Clause Extractions in Context *

Extractions from Relative Clauses in Swedish as Self-answering Questions

This restriction on RCs has been regarded as an instantiation of the so called Complex NP Constraint (henceforth: CNPC) which was originally introduced by Ross (1967). According to this constraint, no internal material must be extracted out of a DP . By DP internal material, one commonly assumes attributes or subparts of attributes. DPs, therefore, are islands for movement. Regarding RCs as tru...

Animacy Effects in Chinese Relative Clause Processing

Verb Bias in Mandarin Relative Clause Processing

Recent research has indicated that a verb’s preferential subcategorization frame plays a fundamental role in guiding the choice of the type of complement that follows a verb. For example, sentences with a sentential complement-biased verb, such as “admitted”, will cause less processing difficulties when it is followed by a sentential complement than when it is followed by a direct object. Such ...