Das Nachfeld im Deutschen

Vinckel-Roisin, Hélène

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“…This study examines the correlation between information and the position of relative clauses. There has been much research [Vinckel-Roisin (2015), Poschmann and Wagner (2016), among others] which links RC extraposition with information status or focus [both are often understood according to Chafe (1976), Prince (1981), Krifka (2007), among others].…”

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Information Density and the Extraposition of German Relative Clauses

Voigtmann

Speyer

2021

Front. Psychol.

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This paper aims to find a correlation between Information Density (ID) and extraposition of Relative Clauses (RC) in Early New High German. Since surprisal is connected to perceiving difficulties, the impact on the working memory is lower for frequent combinations with low surprisal-values than it is for rare combinations with higher surprisal-values. To improve text comprehension, producers therefore distribute information as evenly as possible across a discourse. Extraposed RC are expected to have a higher surprisal-value than embedded RC. We intend to find evidence for this idea in RC taken from scientific texts from the 17th to 19th century. We built a corpus of tokenized, lemmatized and normalized papers about medicine from the 17th and 19th century, manually determined the RC-variants and calculated a skipgram-Language Model to compute the 2-Skip-bigram surprisal of every word of the relevant sentences. A logistic regression over the summed up surprisal values shows a significant result, which indicates a correlation between surprisal values and extraposition. So, for these periods it can be said that RC are more likely to be extraposed when they have a high total surprisal value. The influence of surprisal values also seems to be stable across time. The comparison of the analyzed language periods shows no significant change.

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Information Density and the Extraposition of German Relative Clauses

Voigtmann

Speyer

2021

Front. Psychol.

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“…For reasons of space, we do not discuss potential analyses of clausal extraposition, if any, in terms of PF-movement. As forInaba (2007),Frey (2015; they followHaider (1997; in their account of clausal complements, restricting PF-movement to non-complements.22 PO-clauses are only marginally mentioned inHaider (2010:218).…”

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Remarks on prepositional object clauses in Germanic

Gunkel

Hartmann

2020

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This paper analyses the variation we find in the realization of finite clausal complements in the position of prepositional objects in a set of Germanic languages. The Germanic languages differ with respect to whether prepositions can directly select a clause (North Germanic) or not and instead need a prepositional proform (Continental West Germanic). Within the Continental West Germanic languages, we find further differences with respect to the constituent structures. We propose that German strong vs. weak prepositional proforms (e.g. drauf vs. darauf) differ with respect to their syntax, while this is not the case for the Dutch forms (ervan vs. daarvan). What the Germanic languages under consideration share is that the prepositional element can be covert, except in English. English shows only limited evidence for the presence of P with finite clauses in the position of prepositional objects generally, but only with a selected set of verbs. This investigation is a first step towards a broader study of the nature of clauses in prepositional object positions and the implications for the syntax of clausal complementation.

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Heines Buch der Lieder: Wortstellungsvariationen im Dienste der Popularität

Vinckel-Roisin

2022

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Das Nachfeld im Deutschen

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Information Density and the Extraposition of German Relative Clauses

Information Density and the Extraposition of German Relative Clauses

Remarks on prepositional object clauses in Germanic

Heines Buch der Lieder: Wortstellungsvariationen im Dienste der Popularität

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