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20 - Experimental Syntax and Slavic Languages

from Part III - Experimental Studies of Specific Populations and Language Families

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 December 2021

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Arthur Stepanov
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Grant Goodall
Grant Goodall
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University of California, San Diego
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Summary

The chapter reviews a number of empirical domains that recently came into the focus of research in Slavic experimental syntax, including island phenomena, syntactic Superiority effects, various types of agreement, word order, and scope interaction, among others. This research mostly relies on sentence acceptability experiments applied across larger pools of participants, but the chapter also reviews selected studies using related experimental methods (e.g. elicited production and sentence–picture verification). The chapter concludes by identifying a number of conceptual issues in syntactic theory, for which we believe Slavic experimental syntax has a potential to make a particularly strong contribution.

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experimental syntaxSlavic languagesyntactic islandunaccusativityinformation structureSuperiority effectCase matchingagreementnumeral phrase
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The Cambridge Handbook of Experimental Syntax , pp. 534 - 560
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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