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Inverse Case attraction: experimental evidence for a syntactically guided process

Anna Czypionka, Laura Dörre, Josef Bayer

The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics > 2018 > 21 > 2 > 135-188

In progressive Case attraction, the Case of a head nominal overwrites the Case of a following coindexed relative pronoun. The reverse process is called ‘inverse’ Case attraction. There, the morphologically overt Case of a relative pronoun overwrites the Case of a preceding head nominal. Inverse Case attraction has been attested in languages like Ancient Greek, Latin, and in the history of different...

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Emphatic Topicalization and the Structure of the Left Periphery: Evidence from German and Bangla

Josef Bayer, Probal Dasgupta

Syntax > 19 > 4 > 309 - 353

The goal of this article is to explore the structure of the clausal “left periphery” with respect to a phenomenon that has so far only rarely been identified as a root‐clause phenomenon: emphatic topicalization (ET). It is a form of movement by which a phrase (not necessarily a wh‐phrase) targets the specifier of a complementizer. This movement prevents the CP complement from remaining in its embedded...

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Nominal negative quantifiers as adjuncts

Josef Bayer

The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics > 2009 > 12 > 1 > 5-30

The topic of the following article is an exceptional use of the negative quantifier nothing and its correspondents in German, Dutch and Italian in which this element turns out to act like a negative polarity item (NPI). The circumstances under which this is the case have very briefly been described in Bayer (2006). Nothing is interpreted like an NPI whenever it is not licensed as an argument. Closer...

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Is human sentence parsing serial or parallel? - Evidence from event-related brain potentials

Jens-Max Hopf, Markus Bader, Michael Meng, Josef Bayer

Cognitive Brain Research > 2003 > 15 > 2 > 165-177

In this ERP study we investigate the processes that occur in syntactically ambiguous German sentences at the point of disambiguation. Whereas most psycholinguistic theories agree on the view that processing difficulties arise when parsing preferences are disconfirmed (so-called garden-path effects), important differences exist with respect to theoretical assumptions about the parser's recovery from...

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Morphological underspecification meets oblique case: syntactic and processing effects in German

Josef Bayer, Markus Bader, Michael Meng

Lingua > 2001 > 111 > 4-7 > 465-514

In German, oblique Cases (dative and genitive) require morphological licensing while structural Cases (nominative and accusative) do not. This difference can be captured by assuming that in German, NPs bearing oblique Case have an extra structural layer Kase phrase (KP) which is missing in NPs bearing structural Case. Focusing on dative NPs, we will show that the postulation of such a phrase-structural...

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Case and Reanalysis

Markus Bader, Michael Meng, Josef Bayer

Journal of Psycholinguistic Research > 2000 > 29 > 1 > 37-52

In this paper we discuss an asymmetry in the Case system of German and its implications for human sentence processing: the asymmetry between nominative/accusative and dative case. Starting from the assumption that dative case has a distinct grammatical representation--dative DPs are embedded into an extra structural layer KP--the results of two experiments will be presented, which show that dative...

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Linguistic theory and morphosyntactic impairments in German and Italian aphasics

Ria De Bleser, Josef Bayer, Claudio Luzzatti

Journal of Neurolinguistics > 1996 > 9 > 3 > 175-185

At the turn of the century, the study of agrammatism started in German aphasiology with the introduction of syntax as an object of research in linguistics and the psychology of language. The disorder descriptively known as agrammatism was originally thought to arise from multiple origins, at the level of syntactic word order, of function word insertion, of grammaticalization by means of morphology,...

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Dialektsyntax.

Werner Abraham, Josef Bayer

Lingua > 1996 > 99 > 1-2 > 37-42

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