Tolerable mismatches in clausal ellipsis (Dissertation Project)
- Surveying the range of different sorts of mismatch in different kinds of clausal ellipsis (sluicing, stripping, VPE), and the online processing thereof
If-Stripping and other kinds of clausal ellipsis
- Investigating the structure of stripped conditional clauses, as in:
I heard John likes scotch. If John likes Lagavulin, he has good taste.
Sentence processing and interference effects of Wh-adjuncts
- Investigating how features of adverbial phrases are tracked during online sentence processing.
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