The relationship between grammaticality ratings and corpus frequencies: A case study into word order variability in the midfield of German clauses
The relationship between grammaticality ratings and corpus frequencies: A case study into word order variability in the midfield of German clauses
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语法评级与语料库频率之间的关系:德语子句中场词序变异的案例研究
DOI:
10.1515/9783110197549.329
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发表时间:
2005
影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
Karin Harbusch
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作者:
G. Kempen;Karin Harbusch
It is almost a commonplace that word order in the midfield of German clauses is flexible. Although statements to this effect do not claim that “anything goes” (cf. Eisenberg (1994, Ch. 12); Rambow (1994); Muller (1999)), they suggest that word order variability in German clauses is considerably greater than, for example, in Dutch and English ones. The following three constraints on the ordering of argument NPs have figured prominently in the linguistic and psycholinguistic literature (cf. Uszkoreit (1987), Pechmann et al. (1996), Keller (2000)): C1: Pronominal ≺ Non–pronominal C2: Nominative ≺ Non–nominative, and C3: Dative ≺ Accusative (where “≺” means “precedes”). Recently, intuitions about word order in German have been probed in a systematic fashion by Keller (2000). From linguistically untrained native speakers he elicited “graded grammaticality” judgments via a novel technique based on the psychophysical method of Magnitude Estimation (Bard et al. 1996). In one of his experiments, he determined the strengths of C1, C2 and C3 in ditransitive subordinate clauses. None of the three “precedence” constraints turned out to be “absolute” in the sense that their violation gave rise to extremely low acceptability/grammaticality judgments (as low as vi-