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Caseless direct objects in Turkish revisited [Online resource]
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In: Byproducts and side effects : Nebenprodukte und Nebeneffekte 58 (2015), 107-123
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The role of givenness, presupposition, and prosody in Czech word order: An experimental study∗
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In: http://semprag.org/article/viewFile/sp.8.3/pdf_8_3/
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Abstract:
We present evidence from acceptability judgment experiments that there is systematic prosodic givenness marking in Czech in that discourse-salient elements avoid sentence stress, contra the claim in Kučerová 2007, 2012 that givenness is marked only syntactically — by establishing a word order in which all given elements precede all new ones — and not prosodically in Czech. We argue that the syntactic movement of given elements results from the need to avoid the rightmost position where sentence stress falls, and not from a syntactic ordering requirement. This is supported by the empirical finding that given objects need not scramble if they are not in sentence-final position, even if they are preceded by new elements (experiment 2). We also argue against Kučerová’s claim that given elements are marked only if definite/presupposed in Czech by showing that irrespective of this property, all given objects tend to avoid the sentence-final position (experiment 1). Finally, our results reveal an interaction between presupposition and word order, in the sense of an acceptability penalty for utterances in which non-∗ We are grateful to the following people for their valuable comments: Philippa Cook, Gisbert
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URL: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.666.2754
http://semprag.org/article/viewFile/sp.8.3/pdf_8_3/
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