Compound-internal anaphora: evidence from acceptability judgements on Italian argumental compounds
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Abstract The particular properties of argumental compounds in Italian pose interesting theoretical challenges, and investigations possible syntactic operations within this type complex words have resulted conflicting conclusions. Regarding compound-internal anaphora, some researchers exclude the possibility that pronouns can refer to non-head, while others do not. However, these findings been based on researchers’ intuitions occurrences language corpora, shown give contrasting results, absence a grammatical structure corpus should not be taken as evidence is possible. present study aims experimentally determine pronominal reference structural referential expressions. Judgements were obtained from 140 native speakers who rated acceptability sentences containing pronoun (null or overt) referring argument element an compound. results indicate anaphoric acceptable case left-headed and, somewhat lesser extent, verb-noun compounds. right-headed compounds, however, does appear available reference. Referential expressions also play role degree acceptability, with allowing null form anaphora greater extent. These provide new important insights into processing
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Morphology
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['1871-5621', '1871-5656']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11525-022-09398-w