Browse by author
Lookup NU author(s): Emeritus Professor Anders Holmberg
This article reports on a judgment experiment intended to test a prediction of Anagnostopoulou’s (2003) seminal proposal concerning locality of A-movement in languages with Theme-Goal orders in active and passive contexts. Results from an experiment with native speakers of UK English show a significant cross-speaker correlation between scores for Theme-Goal orders in active contexts and Theme passives. The results nevertheless indicate a richer inventory of grammars than the two-dialect distribution entailed by a single parametric difference assumed in locality approaches. We propose that these data are best expressed on a modified version of GB case-based approaches to passive symmetry that models the availability of Theme-Goal orders in both passive and active contexts in terms of the merged position of the probes responsible for agreement on the internal arguments.
Author(s): Haddican W, Holmberg A
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics
Year: 2012
Volume: 15
Issue: 3
Pages: 189-212
Print publication date: 01/10/2012
Date deposited: 10/01/2013
ISSN (print): 1383-4924
ISSN (electronic): 1572-8552
Publisher: Springer
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10828-012-9051-x
DOI: 10.1007/s10828-012-9051-x
Altmetrics provided by Altmetric