An experimental approach to case marking in Romanian elliptical comparatives
The main goal of this paper is to experimentally assess the case marking alternation on the subject remnant in Romanian gapped comparatives, in order to illustrate the limits of introspective informal judgments as the sole source of data and to show the importance of more formal methods, which p...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Editura Universitatii din Oradea
2022-12-01
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| Series: | Studii de Lingvistica |
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| Online Access: | https://studiidelingvistica.uoradea.ro/docs/12-2-2022/pdf-uri/Bilbiie.pdf |
| Summary: | The main goal of this paper is to experimentally assess the
case marking alternation on the subject remnant in Romanian gapped
comparatives, in order to illustrate the limits of introspective informal
judgments as the sole source of data and to show the importance of
more formal methods, which provide more reliable and richer data. In
particular, this study aims to show the role of the second remnant (i.e.,
the direct object) with respect to the case marking options on the first
(pronominal subject) remnant. Crucially, our experimental approach
allows us to observe the interaction between the semantic factor
of animacy and case marking in Romanian gapped comparatives.
In order to account for the gradience observed in our experimental
data, we propose an approach based on acceptability rather than
grammaticality. From a theoretical perspective, the case alternation on
the subject remnant challenges the deletion-based syntactic analysis
and argues for a constructionist approach in terms of fragments. |
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| ISSN: | 2248-2547 2284-5437 |