Head adjacency and the Danish dative alternation

Johannes Kizach; Sten Vikner

doi:10.1111/stul.12047

Head adjacency and the Danish dative alternation

Johannes Kizach, Sten Vikner

Institut for Kommunikation og Kultur - Engelsk

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Abstract

The production of the Danish dative alternation is investigated in a corpus study, which shows that animacy, definiteness, pronominality and length all influence word order. The study demonstrates, however, that definiteness and animacy have a weaker influence than pronominality and length. Two subsequent behavioural experiments investigate whether length had an impact on comprehension. A rating experiment showed no significant difference between short-before-long and long-before-short orders. A speeded acceptability judgment experiment showed a reaction time difference between the same two orders iff the length difference is two words. To account for the absence of such a difference when the length difference is four words, we suggest that the increased predictability of the second DP reduces the cost of having a long argument before a short one.

Originalsprog	Engelsk
Tidsskrift	Studia Linguistica
Vol/bind	72
Nummer	2
Sider (fra-til)	191-213
Antal sider	22
ISSN	0039-3193
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1111/stul.12047
Status	Udgivet - 2018

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Cognition, Language and Music
Vikner, S. (Projektleder), Petersen, B. (Deltager), Christensen, K. R. (Deltager), Dohn, A. (Deltager), Kizach, J. (Deltager), Kratschmer, A. R. (Deltager), Nyvad, A. M. (Deltager), Stjernfelt, F. (Deltager), Togeby, O. (Deltager), Garza-Villarreal, E. A. (Deltager), Vuust, P. (Deltager) & Wallentin, M. (Deltager)
01/01/2009 → 31/12/2013
Projekter: Projekt › Forskning
Similarities and Differences between Clauses and Nominals - Comparative Syntax across Theoretical Approaches
Vikner, S. (Projektleder), Engels, E. (Deltager), Krogh, S. (Deltager), Nølke, H. (Deltager), Tafteberg, K. P. (Deltager) & Wood, J. (Deltager)
01/02/2008 → 31/12/2012
Projekter: Projekt › Forskning
Object positions - Comparative linguistics in a cross-theoretical perspective
Jørgensen, H. (Projektleder), Vikner, S. (Projektleder), Bjerre, T. (Deltager) & Engels, E. (Deltager)
01/04/2005 → 30/06/2007
Projekter: Projekt › Forskning

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Head adjacency and the Danish dative alternation

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Similarities and Differences between Clauses and Nominals - Comparative Syntax across Theoretical Approaches

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