The Syntactic Integration of Adverbial Clauses
SFr. 117,95
This work takes an experimental approach to address the notoriously puzzling attachment of adverbial clauses to their host clauses. On the basis of experiments gathering well-formedness judgements, the author shows that a multifactorial account which reflects both syntactic and processing factors is required in order to capture this complex phenomenon. The author also demonstrates that a new structural factor - "clause-command" - more successfully accounts for the anaphorical relations between clauses than traditional c-command.