‘Real’ and apparent optionality in second language                 grammars: finiteness and pronouns in null operator structures

Parodi, Teresa; Tsimpli, Ianthi Maria

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“…4 Resumption is crosslinguistically also very common in so-called referential/anaphoric chains, like Topicalisation and Null Operator Structures(Lasnik and Stowell, 1991;Tsimpli, 1995;Rizzi, 1997;Tsimpli, 1999;Parodi and Tsimpli, 2005). Clitic Left Dislocation (CLLD) in Romance and Greek as in (i) as well as adjectival and degree clauses as in (ii) from Greek and Romance are well studied examples of anaphoric resumptive chains (see in particularParodi and Tsimpli, 2005 for the latter).…”

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Truly intrusive: Resumptive pronominals in questions and relative clauses

Alexopoulou

2010

Lingua

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Truly intrusive: Resumptive pronominals in questions and relative clauses

Alexopoulou

2010

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“…' Parodi and Tsimpli (2005) analyze such cases as instances of intrusive resumption due to an opaque/weakisland-like domain created by a rich T in the Greek na-clause that blocks the identification of the empty category. Understanding the relation between this type of resumption and resumption in questions is beyond the scope of this article.…”

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Locality, Cyclicity, and Resumption: At the Interface between the Grammar and the Human Sentence Processor

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2007

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We present an experimental investigation of the role of resumptive pronouns. We investigate object extraction in WH-questions for a range of syntactic configurations (nonislands, weak islands, strong islands) and for multiple levels of embedding (single, double, and triple). In order to establish the crosslinguistic properties of resumption, parallel experiments were conducted in three languages, viz. English, Greek, and German. Three main experimental results are reported. First, resumption does not remedy island violations: resumptive pronominals are at most as acceptable as gaps, but not more acceptable. This result disconfirms claims in the literature that resumptives can 'save' island violations. Second, embedding reduces acceptability even in extraction out of nonislands and declaratives, structures standardly assumed to be fully grammatical. Third, nonislands and weak islands pattern together and contrast with strong islands in terms of the effect of resumption and embedding. Our experimental findings show a remarkable consistency across the three languages we investigate; crosslinguistic variation appears confined to quantitative differences in crosslinguistically identical principles. We argue that these experimental results can be explained by the interaction of grammatical principles with resource limitations of the human parser. In particular, extraction from nonislands and weak islands imposes increased demands on the computational resources of the parser. We extend Gibson's (1998) syntactic prediction locality theory in order to formalize this intuition and account for the processing complexity of A-bar dependencies.*

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“…The T 0 ‐Φ Parameter can account for a similar observation in unrelated languages which lack infinitives, including Modern Greek (see, e.g. Philippaki‐Warburton , Kotzoglou , and Parodi & Tsimpli ). The following examples show that Modern Greek ECM verbs agree with their subjects (the examples are cited in Kotzoglou (:42); the embedded verb in the ECM construction appears in boldface).…”

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“…14 The T 0 -Φ Parameter can account for a similar observation in unrelated languages which lack infinitives, including Modern Greek (see, e.g. Philippaki-Warburton 1987, Kotzoglou 2002, andParodi &Tsimpli 2005 The two verbs traɡudai and ɡrapsi show overt agreement with their subjects. The T 0 -Φ Parameter offers us an elegant way to account for the apparent similarity between JA and Modern Greek.…”

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Complementizer Agreement and the T⁰‐Φ Parameter in Jordanian Arabic

Jarrah

2019

Studia Linguistica

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Contra Chomsky (2007, 2008), this paper argues that there is no Φ‐dependency between C0 and T0 in Jordanian Arabic (JA) grammar. C0 and T0 are independently endowed with uΦ‐content, something that turns them into active probes, which are shown to not necessarily agree with the same goal. This provides evidence for a proposal where T0 and C0 have distinct uΦ‐features (Haegeman & van Koppen 2012). The study also shows that C0 in JA, unlike T0, may agree with a goal whose structural Case is already valued. We account for this variation following Oxford's (2017) microparametric proposal where the Activity Condition is a property of a particular functional head, rather than a property of the language as a whole. With respect to T0's Φ‐endowment, this study proposes that such endowment is a consequence of setting a positive value of the postulated T0‐Φ Parameter, which distinguishes languages where T0 is endowed with Φ‐features from those where it is not. This accounts for the observation that T0 is always inflected for Φ‐agreement in JA, even in situations where C0 is not projected.

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‘Real’ and apparent optionality in second language grammars: finiteness and pronouns in null operator structures

Abstract: To cite this version:Teresa Parodi, Ianthi-Maria Tsimpli. 'Real' and apparent optionality in second language grammars: finiteness and pronouns in null operator structures.

Cited by 59 publications

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Truly intrusive: Resumptive pronominals in questions and relative clauses

Truly intrusive: Resumptive pronominals in questions and relative clauses

Locality, Cyclicity, and Resumption: At the Interface between the Grammar and the Human Sentence Processor

Complementizer Agreement and the T⁰‐Φ Parameter in Jordanian Arabic

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‘Real’ and apparent optionality in second language grammars: finiteness and pronouns in null operator structures

Abstract: To cite this version:Teresa Parodi, Ianthi-Maria Tsimpli. 'Real' and apparent optionality in second language grammars: finiteness and pronouns in null operator structures.

Cited by 59 publications

References 25 publications

Truly intrusive: Resumptive pronominals in questions and relative clauses

Truly intrusive: Resumptive pronominals in questions and relative clauses

Locality, Cyclicity, and Resumption: At the Interface between the Grammar and the Human Sentence Processor

Complementizer Agreement and the T0‐Φ Parameter in Jordanian Arabic

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Complementizer Agreement and the T⁰‐Φ Parameter in Jordanian Arabic