No case for Case in locality: Case does not help interpretation when intervention blocks A-bar chains

We discuss a robust yet at first sight surprising fact: individuals who have problems understanding sentences with object A-bar movement cannot use overt Case marking of the object to interpret these sentences and to associate the DPs with thematic roles. We tested the effect of overt Case marking o...

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Main Authors: Naama Friedmann, Luigi Rizzi, Adriana Belletti
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2017-04-01
Series:Glossa
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Online Access:http://www.glossa-journal.org/articles/165