Empty Categories in Sentence Processing (Linguistik Artuell/Linguistics Today)

The work reported in this book came about as a result of the realization that the issue of the role of syntactic gaps in processing was unresolved. It is surprising that this should be the case, since there are few fields of study which seem to allow experimental approaches to produce answers to syntactic questions, and these few are generally investigated with great zeal. Gap processing shows the potential to be such a field, and it too had been very popular in the late eighties and the first half of the nineties.

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Table of contents

 

Foreword	xi
Abbreviations	xv
1. Introduction	1
2. Empty categories in PPT and HPSG	9
3. Parsers and gap processing	49
4. Antecedent Reactivation and Trace	81
5. NP-trace and PRO: Local ECs	141
6. Evidence from sentence matching on wh-trace dependencies	193
7. Conclusions	221
Appendix 1: Materials for CMLP Experiments 1–3	233
Appendix 2: Materials for probe recognition Experiment 4	239
Appendix 3: Materials for ERP Experiment 5	249
Appendix 4: Materials for sentence matching Experiment 6	257
References	261
Index	275