The source of syntactic island effects has been a topic of considerable debate within
linguistics and psycholinguistics. Explanations fall into three basic categories: grammatical …

The prevalent method in syntax and semantics research involves obtaining a judgement of
the acceptability of a sentence/meaning pair, typically by just the author of the paper …

This article deals with the claim that the MAGNITUDE ESTIMATION (ME) method of
gathering acceptability judgments produces data that are more informative for linguists than …

Since Juan Uriagereka originated the multiple spell-out model in 1999 it has been one of the
most influential lines of research in syntactic theorizing. The model simplified a crucial …

This dissertation investigates the syntactic architecture of applicative constructions in the
research tradition initiated by Marantz 1993, in which a light verb head, the so-called" …

Understanding and measuring sentence acceptability is of fundamental importance for
linguists, but although many measures for doing so have been developed, relatively little is …

This article argues that 2-alternative forced choice tasks and Thurstone's law of comparative
judgments are well suited to investigate code-switching competence by means of …

This dissertation revisits subject island effects (Ross 1967, Chomsky 1973) cross-
linguistically. Controlled acceptability judgment studies in German, English, Japanese and …

This chapter compares three response methods commonly used in sentence acceptability
experiments: yes/no, an n-point (Likert) scale, and magnitude estimation. An experiment was …

The question of how to integrate idioms into standard theories of grammar has been a matter
of investigation since at least the beginning of generative grammar. Idioms are uniquely …