Long distance scrambling and operator movement in Turkish

Long-Distance Scrambling and Tree Adjoining Grammars

Long-Distance Scrambling via Partial Compaction

In this paper, I propose a novel analysis of long-distance scrambling constructions in Japanese that is linguistically more adequate than those previously suggested in the literature. At the heart of my proposal is the view, suggested in Yatabe (1993a), that there is a theoretically signi cant parallelism between long-distance scrambling in Japanese and extraposition in languages like English. ...

Antecedent priming at trace positions in Japanese long-distance scrambling.

We report the results from three cross-modal lexical decision experiments investigating antecedent priming effects in Japanese. In the first two experiments we examined antecedent reactivation at the preverbal trace position in long-distance scrambling sentences. We found an interaction between the participants' working memory (WM) span and antecedent priming. For the high span group, the magni...

TAG Analysis of Turkish Long Distance Dependencies

All permutations of a two level embedding sentence in Turkish is analyzed, in order to develop an LTAG grammar that can account for Turkish long distance dependencies. The fact that Turkish allows only long distance topicalization and extraposition is shown to be connected to a condition-the coherence condition-that draws the boundary between the acceptable and inacceptable permutations of the ...

Long-Distance Wh-Movement and Minimalism

1 Introduction Long wh-movement is a phenomenon by which an element appears to move directly from an A-or A-position to a higher A-destination, ignoring weak island constraints and bypassing the intermediate landing sites that are characteristic of successive-cyclic wh-movement. Cinque (1990) gives some examples of the contrast between long and successive-cyclic wh-movements, illustrating the l...