41. Two (non-)islands in Slovenian : A study in experimental syntaxArthur Stepanov, Manca Mušič, Penka Stateva, 2018, original scientific article Abstract: There exists a controversy in the literature and among the speakers of Slovenian concerning the grammaticality of wh-island and subject island constructions in this language. We conducted an acceptability rating study of wh-islands and subject islands in Slovenian, using the factorial definition of island. This definition provides for a possibility to isolate a true island effect while controlling for two complexity factors that potentially interfere in speakers’ evaluation of the relevant sentences: the length of the respective movement dependency and the presence of an island structure itself. We found that (i) Slovenian speakers do judge the wh-island sentences worse than the respective controls, but the observed degradation cannot be attributed to a true island effect; (ii) subject extraction out of a wh-island leads to a so called reverse island effect whereby the acceptability is higher than expected even if the above two complexity factors are taken into consideration; and (iii) speakers are sensitive to the subject island effect, as predicted by the mainstream theories of syntactic locality. The results of our study contribute to establishing a solid empirical base for further theoretical investigations of the island effects and raise new questions about the role of processing factors in speakers’ evaluations of island constructions.
Keywords: syntactic island, experimental syntax, Subjacency, Empty Category Principle, Slovenian
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44. Countability, agreement and the loss of the dual in RussianArthur Stepanov, Penka Stateva, 2018, original scientific article Keywords: agreement, atomicity, classifier, countability, dual number, numeral, Russian, Bulgarian
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47. Countability and the structure of numeral-based QPsArthur Stepanov, Penka Stateva, unpublished invited conference lecture Keywords: countability, atomicity, numeral, agreement, dual number, classifier, russian, morphology, syntax, semantics
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48. Univerza v Novi Gorici, Spremljanje, ugotavljanje in zagotavljanje kakovosti, Poročilo za študijsko leto 2016/2017Martina Bergant Marušič, Blaž Belec, Lorena Butinar, IMRE CIKAJLO, Saša Dobričič, Renata Kop, Martin Knez, Boštjan Potokar, Branka Mozetič Vodopivec, Egon Pavlica, Samo Stanič, Tea Stibilj Nemec, Arthur Stepanov, Veronika Piccinini, Anika Velišček, Peter Purg, Aljaž Rener, Nives Štefančič, Ana Toroš, Tanja Urbančič, Matjaž Valant, Aleš Vaupotič, Sabina Zelinšček, 2017, treatise, preliminary study, study Keywords: zagotavljanje kakovosti, visoko šolstvo, univerza
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49. Univerza v Novi Gorici, Spremljanje, ugotavljanje in zagotavljanje kakovosti, Poročilo za študijsko leto 2015/2016Martina Bergant Marušič, Lorena Butinar, IMRE CIKAJLO, Saša Dobričič, Renata Kop, Urška Lavrenčič Štangar, Martin Knez, Boštjan Potokar, Branka Mozetič Vodopivec, Egon Pavlica, Samo Stanič, Tea Stibilj Nemec, Arthur Stepanov, Veronika Piccinini, Tamara Podveršič, Peter Purg, Aljaž Rener, Nives Štefančič, Ana Toroš, Tanja Urbančič, Vanesa Valentinčič, Aleš Vaupotič, Sabina Zelinšček, 2016, treatise, preliminary study, study Keywords: zagotavljanje kakovosti, visoko šolstvo, univerza
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50. Univerza v Novi Gorici, Spremljanje, ugotavljanje in zagotavljanje kakovosti, Poročilo za študijsko leto 2014/2015Martina Bergant Marušič, Aleš Bogovič, Lorena Butinar, IMRE CIKAJLO, Saša Dobričič, Elsa Fabbretti, Renata Kop, Urška Lavrenčič Štangar, Martin Knez, Katja Mihurko, Branka Mozetič Vodopivec, Egon Pavlica, Samo Stanič, Tea Stibilj Nemec, Arthur Stepanov, Boštjan Potokar, Veronika Piccinini, Peter Purg, Aljaž Rener, Nives Štefančič, Ana Toroš, Tanja Urbančič, Vanesa Valentinčič, Aleš Vaupotič, Sabina Zelinšček, 2015, treatise, preliminary study, study Keywords: zagotavljanje kakovosti, visoko šolstvo, univerza
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