When missing NPs make double center-embedding sentences acceptable

A number of languages, such as English, exhibit a grammaticality illusion in ungrammatical double center-embedding sentences where a VP is missing. This article shows that the illusion generalizes to ungrammatical Mandarin Chinese double center-embedding sentences where the head NP of a relative cla...

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Main Authors: Colin Phillips, Nick Huang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2021-04-01
Series:Glossa
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Online Access:https://www.glossa-journal.org/article/id/5417/