John Löwenadler
List of John Benjamins publications for which John Löwenadler plays a role.
Articles
2012 Form deviation and constraints on productivity: A study of comp-gap and intervention effects in English and Swedish Constructions and Frames 4:2, pp. 186–230 | Article
Issues concerning the nature of so-called ‘filler-gap’ constructions and the constraints on their acceptability in different languages have for a long time been at the center of the linguistic debate. In more recent years, claims have often been made that many or all constraints on such… read more
2008 Complementizer-gap phenomena: Syntactic or pragmatic constraints? Investigations of the Syntax–Semantics–Pragmatics Interface, Van Valin Jr., Robert D. (ed.), pp. 359–379 | Article
Since Perlmutter (1971) the complementizer-gap effect has received much attention in linguistic research. This article investigates the solution presented in Van Valin (2005) which states that the phenomenon should be explained in pragmatic rather than syntactic terms. Using data from Swedish and… read more