Long extraction is the movement of a phrase over a clausal boundary. Although long extraction into embedded clauses used to be acceptable in previous stages of German, it is considered to be unacceptable in Modern German. ...
This paper presents two experiments investigating how the referential form of the object NP affects the acceptability of German main clauses starting with either the subject or direct object. The main clause was always ...
We review recent experiments and corpus data from our ongoing investigation of p(ersonal) and d(emonstrative) pronouns. Contrary to a widespread belief, d-pronouns did not always refer to non-topical antecedents in case ...
