Markus Bader, Josef Bayer

Case and Linking in Language Comprehension (eBook, PDF)

Evidence from German

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Produktbeschreibung

German is a language which has received a lot of attention in linguistics, and data from German had a substantial in?uence on the formation of linguistic theory. The in?uence this language had so far on psycholinguistics and on s- tactic processing in particular is much more limited, although the last 10 years have seen a growing interest in psycholinguistic investigations of German. The present monograph will build on earlier work and develop it further toward an account of syntactic comprehension on the basis of theoretical as well as - perimental investigations. The verb-?nal nature, the free order of constituents, and the morphological Case system of German offer a rich domain for exp- rations which will be shown to reshape our knowledge about human sentence processing in general. Much of the research which led to this monograph has been carried out at theFriedrichSchiller UniversityJenaandhasbeenconcluded atKonstanzU- versity. Our research has been supported between 1997 and 2005 by grant Ba 1178/4 of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) under the title L- guage Comprehension and Variable Word Order - Syntactic and Extrasyntactic Factors in Processing German Sentences. We are indebted to the DFG for this continuous support over the years, and in particular to Dr. Manfred Briegel and Dr. Susanne Anschütz for their administrative help.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Netherlands
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Mai 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781402043444
• Artikelnr.: 37352524

Autorenporträt

Markus Bader is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Konstanz. He specializes in human language processing with an emphasis on syntax. He was formerly at the University of Jena and has been a visiting professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and is widely known for his work on the processing of German.

Josef Bayer is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Konstanz. His specialization is mainly in syntactic theory, and comparative linguistics, Germanic and South-Asian. He was formerly at the University of Jena and has held positions in research centers in Germany and in the Netherlands.

Inhaltsangabe

INTRODUCING THE HUMAN SENTENCE PROCESSING MECHANISM.- WORD ORDER AND CASE IN GERMAN.- FIRST-PASS PREFERENCES IN SYNTACTIC-FUNCTION AMBIGUITIES.- THE MENTAL REPRESENTATION OF CASE.- A MODEL OF LINKING AND CHECKING.- CASE CHECKING AND THE HSPM I: ON LEXICAL REACCESS.- CASE CHECKING AND THE HSPM II: THE ROLE OF WORKING MEMORY.- IN DEFENSE OF SERIAL PARSING.- SUMMARY:LINKING,CHECKING,ANDBEYOND.

Rezensionen

From the reviews:

"This is a very good book reporting lots of interesting work particularly for those who concern themselves with the boundary zone of syntax and processing. ... First, it is a very well written. The text style is clear and simple; it is succinct and to the point. ... Second, it provides all the background information ... to make it accessible to non-specialists. ... it is a significant contribution to the literature in its field. ... I can heartily recommend it to others in the field." (Sam Featherston, The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics, Vol. 11, 2008)

Aus den Rezensionen: "... Das Buch liest sich angenehm für den linguistisch Vorgebildeten. Es ist nicht genug zu betonen, wie wichtig derartige Einsichten für die linguistische Theoriediskussion und deren Universalienpostulate in der modernen Syntax sind. Gerade die Ergebnisse zum Deutschen sind dazu geeignet, die verarbeitungsexperimentelle und linguistische Theoriebildung weltweit entscheidend voranzubringen." (Werner Abraham, in: Germanistik, 2006, Vol. 47, Issue 3-4, S. 594)