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VORTRAG
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Dr.Christoph SCHEEPERS
Universitaet des Saarlandes
Saarbruecken
VALENCY PREDICTION IN GERMAN VERB FINAL CONSTRUCTIONS
Three experiments on clause-final verb integration in German will be
reported. These manipulated the verb's lexically preferred valency
(monotransitive vs. ditransitive bias) and the syntactic context prior
to the verb (comprising either one or two NP-objects in addition to the
subject). Experiment 1 combined self-paced reading with an off-line
acceptability judgement task. The results were validated by, respect-
ively, a paper-and-pencil questionnaire (Experiment 2) and an eye-
tracking study (Experiment 3).
The main findings were as follows. Syntactic integration of a mono-
transitive-bias verb into a context with a subject and two objects is
costly. By contrast, syntactic integration of a ditransitively biased
verb into a context with a subject and only one object is unproblem-
atic. The results favour an incremental, but nevertheless monotonic
sentence processor that predicts a *minimum* verb valency on the basis
of how many arguments have already been encountered at each point
during parsing. We will show that neither a strictly head-driven
model, nor a probabilistic (i.e. "exposure-based") incremental
processor can fully account for the data.
Zeit: Donnerstag, 27.Juli 2000, 18:30 Uhr pktl.
Ort: OeFAI, Schottengasse 3, 1010 Wien 1.
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