ConSOLE 32 2024 • Queen Mary University of London

On reconstruction in German ATB-movement and the optimization of experimental designs

Timea Szarvas

University of Potsdam

timea.szarvas@uni-potsdam.de
ATB-movementPrinciple C reconstructionCoreference experimental design

Abstract

This paper reports on an experimental study of principle C reconstruction in German ATBmovement. The results indicate that the previously reported asymmetry between the two conjuncts is due to distance between the referent and the pronoun. The findings suggest that principle C reconstruction is not suitable to probe into underlying syntactic structures, while prompting a discussion about experimental designs for coreference tasks. I hypothesize that binding phenomena in ATB-dependencies show different patterns due to their own nature, not some inherent trait of ATB-movement.

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Timea Szarvas (2024). on reconstruction in german atb-movement and the optimization of experimental designs. In Proceedings of ConSOLE 32, edited by Federica Longo, Leonardo Russo Cardona, Tommaso Sgrizzi, Atefeh Shahbazi, Hadis Tamleh, (pp. 195-212).

BibTeX

@inproceedings{szarvas-coreference-2024, title={On reconstruction in German ATB-movement and the optimization of experimental designs}, author={Timea Szarvas}, booktitle={Proceedings of ConSOLE 32}, year={2024}, pages={195-212}, editor={Federica Longo and Leonardo Russo Cardona and Tommaso Sgrizzi and Atefeh Shahbazi and Hadis Tamleh} }

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