When missing NPs make double center-embedding sentences acceptable
A number of languages, such as English, exhibit a grammaticality illusion in ungrammatical double center-embedding sentences where a VP is missing. This article shows that the illusion generalizes to ungrammatical Mandarin Chinese double center-embedding sentences where the head NP of a relative cla...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Open Library of Humanities
2021-04-01
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Series: | Glossa |
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Online Access: | https://www.glossa-journal.org/articles/1292 |