Syntax - Theory and Analysis. Volume 3 by Kiss Tibor;Alexiadou Artemis;

Syntax - Theory and Analysis. Volume 3 by Kiss Tibor;Alexiadou Artemis;

Author:Kiss, Tibor;Alexiadou, Artemis;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: De Gruyter
Published: 2015-12-15T00:00:00+00:00


For other sentence constructions, however, the integration of the VP-Internal-Subject Hypothesis into the Trace-Deletion Hypothesis has led to predictions that are not born out by the agrammatic comprehension data. Consider as an example wh-object questions such as (9). In a wh-object question neither the object NP nor the subject NP receives a theta role directly by the verb because both phrases are moved out of VP and their traces are deleted. The default strategy would then assign the AGENT role to the clause-initial NP, the object wh-pronoun. In consequence, wh-object questions should be interpreted as wh-subject questions by agrammatic individuals and their performance in understanding such sentences should, hence, be worse than chance, a prediction which is, however, not born out by the data (cf. Hickok and Avrutin 1995; see Grodzinsky 2000: 59 for suggestions how to solve this issue within the Trace-Deletion Hypothesis). The challenge that the integration of the VP-Internal-Subject Hypothesis poses to the Trace-Deletion Hypothesis has led researchers to suggest that the dissociation between impaired comprehension of sentences including object traces and spared comprehension of sentences with subject traces in agrammatic aphasia provides evidence that the VP-Internal-Subject Hypothesis might not be valid (Schaeffer 2000).

(9) agrammatic representation



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