Abstract
The present study investigated the following: i) how NPs bearing differing GRs behave with respect to two proposed subject diagnostics - Honorific Agreement (HA) and Plural Copying on adverbs (PC) and ii) whether scrambling allows non-Subject GRs to control these properties. An experimental investigation using Magnitude Estimation (ME) was conducted. The result revealed that the sentences with Subject NP controller got higher acceptability scores compared to non-Subject NP controllers for both diagnostics and that scrambling did not have an effect on acceptability. While both HA and PC showed a similar pattern of preference for Subject controllers, the contrast between Subject and non-Subject controllers was more pronounced with HA.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages | 206-213 |
Number of pages | 8 |
State | Published - 2019 |
Event | 31st Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, PACLIC 2017 - Cebu City, Philippines Duration: Nov 16 2017 → Nov 18 2017 |
Conference
Conference | 31st Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, PACLIC 2017 |
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Country/Territory | Philippines |
City | Cebu City |
Period | 11/16/17 → 11/18/17 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Language and Linguistics
- Computer Science (miscellaneous)