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Query:   References: Optional Word Omission, That-omission
Author:  Florian Jaeger
Submitter Email:  click here to access email
Linguistic LingField(s):   Syntax

Summary:   Regarding query: http://www.linguistlist.org/issues/16/16-3525.html#2

Thanks to everyone who send me comments on the literature on that-omission
(pls, send me more if you still find more).
��� Louise McNally
��� Rena Torres Cacoullos
��� John Lawler
��� Wayles Brown
��� Peyton Todd

I have split up the references into four categories: that-omission in (to
the best of my knowledge)
��� Complement clauses: [5, 8, 9, 21-23, 27, 28]
��� Non-subject-extracted relative clauses: [1-3, 7, 10-12, 16-20, 24-26, 29,
30, 32]
��� Subject-extracted relative/contact clauses: [1, 6, 7]
��� Both complement and relative clause: [4, 13-15, 31]

I am sure there is much more on the variationist/sociolinguistic side of
things. Tagliamonte et al. 2005 contains a lot of references in that
direction. Bolinger 1972 contains references to older work (yes, I should
have mentioned that I was aware of Bolinger's work ;-)). If there were
several papers by the same author(s) on the same issue, I have listed the
most recent one. Thanks again for all the helpful information.


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Linguistics, 37, 1-34.
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Evidence from disfluencies. Paper presented at the DiSS'05,
Aix-en-Provence, France.
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predictable if a relative clause is predictable. AMLaP 2005, Ghent, Belgium.
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Accessibility Effects on Variation. Paper presented at the Berkeley
Linguistic Society.
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Clauses.Unpublished manuscript, Dept of Linguistics, University of Southern
California.
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production and comprehension of object relative clauses. Paper presented at
the 26th CogSci.
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complexity in English. Paper presented at the Anglistentag, Erfurt, Germany.
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Structural prediction and ambiguity resolution in a very large corpus of
English sentences. Cognition.
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Zealand English. Victoria University, Wellington.
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vernacular! Insights from the relatives in northern Britain. Language
Variation and Change, 17, 75-112.
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Language, 79(3), 464-484.
[27] Thompson, S. A., & Mulac, A. (1991). The discourse conditions for the
use of complementizer that in conversational English. Journal of
Pragmatics, 15, 237- 251.
[28] Thompson, S. A., & Mulac, A. (Eds.). (1991). A Quantitative
Perspective on the Grammaticization of Epistemic Parentheticals in English.
Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
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Wiksell.
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Omission: A Strong Lexical OCP Effect. Paper presented at the CSL 41, Chicago.
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Linguistic Association, Cologne.

LL Issue: 16.3603
Date Posted: 19-Dec-2005
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