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      Constraints on Argument Linearization in German

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          In this article we present experimental findings on the acceptability of different argument orders in the German middle field. Our study pursues two goals: First, to evaluate a number of surface constraints on German argument order that have been proposed in the literature, and second, to shed new light on how gradient constraints jointly determine sentence acceptability. In four experiments, we investigated the impact of surface constraints relating to animacy, thematic roles, definiteness and case. While we are able to confirm an influence of most constraints under investigation, the resulting constraint hierarchy does not coincide with any hierarchy put forward so far in the literature, to the best of our knowledge. With regard to gradience, our results can be accounted for either by an OT variant incorporating a notion of markedness, or by a fully quantified model using constraint weights. For the latter, however, we provide evidence against uniform penalties associated with constraint violations.

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                Contributors
                Journal
                2397-1835
                Glossa: a journal of general linguistics
                Ubiquity Press
                2397-1835
                12 January 2018
                2018
                : 3
                : 1
                : 6
                Affiliations
                [1 ]Goethe Universität Frankfurt, Norbert-Wollheim-Platz 1, 60629 Frankfurt, DE
                Article
                10.5334/gjgl.258
                fed986bc-e45c-4514-9ae6-e55a2123c90d
                Copyright: © 2018 The Author(s)

                This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

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                : 12 September 2016
                : 19 April 2017
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                General linguistics,Linguistics & Semiotics
                German,weighted constraints,magnitude estimation,word order

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