Voice mismatch in Right Node Raising: Evidence from acceptability judgments and an eyetracking reading experiment
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2016
- handle: 10670/1.ooi214
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Aoi Shirashi et al., « Voice mismatch in Right Node Raising: Evidence from acceptability judgments and an eyetracking reading experiment », HAL-SHS : linguistique, ID : 10670/1.ooi214
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Voice mismatches may arise in VP ellipsis and Pseudogapping between source and target. No such mismatch has been reported for Right Node Raising (RNR). However, French corpora provide many examples, where the shared participle must be interpreted as active (reflexive) and passive. Since RNR requires semantic contrast between the conjuncts, we conducted two experiments to test semantic (agent) contrast and syntactic (voice) match: +contrast/-match: Ce pharmacien doit des explications à ceux qui se sont *ou qui ont été* mobilisés pour lui. / This pharmacist owes explanations to those who themselves have or who have been mobilized for him. -contrast/-match: qu'on a *ou qui ont été* / who one has or who have been +contrast/+match: qui se sont *ou qu'on a* / who themselves have or who one has -contrast/+match: qui étaient *ou qui ont été* / who were or who have been Acceptability judgements only showed a significant effect of contrast (p