Animacy and the ordering of postverbal prepositional phrases in Danish
| Autor: | Johannes Kizach |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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| Zdroj: | Kizach, J 2015, ' Animacy and the ordering of postverbal prepositional phrases in Danish ', Acta Linguistica Hafniensia: International Journal of Linguistics, vol. 47, no. 2, pp. 199-219 . https://doi.org/10.1080/03740463.2015.1089087 |
| ISSN: | 1949-0763 0374-0463 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/03740463.2015.1089087 |
| Popis: | Animacy is well known to affect the order of arguments, and in this article, a corpus study demonstrates that animacy affects the order of non-arguments too. Animacy effects have been explained by appeal to the faster retrieval of animate words, and this account is supported by the finding that postverbal adverbial prepositional phrases in Danish are mostly ordered with the animate phrase first in a corpus sample. Two behavioral experiments reveal no effect of animacy, which strongly suggests that animacy does not affect comprehension. In the corpus study, a strong preference for placing short phrases before long ones is found, and it is argued that this preference is not due to a link between length and accessibility, but rather due to a linearization principle, favoring placement of syntactic heads as close together as possible (in this case, this means placing the verb and the two prepositions as close as possible). |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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