In this paper we reconsider the connectedness effect discussed by Kayne (1983), and illustrated in the examples (1)-(3). Kayne observed that in VO languages, left branch constituents are strong islands for extraction; however, an illegitimate gap inside a left branch island can be rescued by another gap embedded in a lower right branch constituent. The examples in (1)-(2) illustrate preverbal s...

In this paper we reconsider the connectedness effect discussed by Kayne (1983), and illustrated in the examples (1)-(3). Kayne observed that in VO languages, left branch constituents are strong islands for extraction; however, an illegitimate gap inside a left branch island can be rescued by another gap embedded in a lower right branch constituent. The examples in (1)-(2) illustrate preverbal s...

In this study, we apply Walker et al.’s (1994) centering account of Japanese zero elements to Korean correspondents, and we evaluate whether their analysis provides the correct interpretation of zeros. We investigate whether Korean pronouns and zeros are treated as the same sort of entities during semantic interpretation. In a psycholinguistics experiment, we test Walker et al. (1994) by compar...

The article concerns the dilemmas of an editor publishing, after almost 100 years, Stanisław Przybyszewski’s novel Homo sapiens, which was originally published in German. subject analysis are peculiar translations distorting sense message and grammatical, lexical syntactical errors. Examples literal idioms from German encourage reader to suggest new editorial solutions.

This paper describes our experience with few models for recovering the grammatical relations in isolated English sentences. Our method starts with a set of linguistically motivated features and then uses machine learning methods to induce a classifier able to identify relations such as logical subject, direct object, etc. Our experiments show that our set of features is powerful and can deliver...

Much work has demonstrated so-called attraction errors in the production of subject–verb agreement (e.g., ‘The key to the cabinets are on the table’, [Bock, J. K., & Miller, C. A. (1991). Broken agreement. Cognitive Psychology, 23, 45–93]), in which a verb erroneously agrees with an intervening noun. Six self-paced reading experiments examined the online mechanisms underlying the analogous attr...

Children's poor performance on object relative clauses has been explained in terms of intervention locality. This approach predicts that object relatives with a full DP head and an embedded pronominal subject are easier than object relatives in which both the head noun and the embedded subject are full DPs. This prediction is shared by other accounts formulated to explain processing mechanisms....

Let Gm resp. Gf be the minimal resp. formal Kac-Moody group, associated to a symmetrizable generalized Cartan matrix, over a field F of characteristic 0. Let F [Gm] be the algebra of strongly regular functions on Gm. We denote by Ĝm resp. Ĝf certain monoid completions of Gm resp. Gf , build by using the faces of the Tits cone. We show that there is an action of Ĝf × Ĝf on the spectrum of F-valu...

Usually writing teachers feel commitment to provide their learners with corrective feedback (CF) to their linguistic errors. The study investigated whether two types of written corrective feedback, indirect focused corrective feedback and indirect unfocused corrective feedback, produced differential effects on the accurate use of grammatical forms by high intermediate EFL learners. In this stud...