Schedule 77. StuTS

I will present my analysis of the that-trace effect in English and German, showing that anti-locality may be a good tool to correctly derive this effect.

The that-trace effect is a phenomenon in languages such as English, German, Dutch, whereas embedded sentences cannot have "that" being followed by what researches assume to be a "trace" position, i.e. a position that was at one point of the derivation be occupied but is not anymore. This is the reason for the difference between the sentences below:

(i) who did you think [CP t' [C' e [IP t would win ]]]
(ii) *who did you think [CP t' [C' that [IP t would win ]]]

However, the picture is not as easy as the description above leads on and I will present my analysis combining findings form anti-locality research, as proposed by Erlewine (2016) and revised by Amy Rose Deal (2019). It seems that it is not the trace that is causing the problem, but the movement steps leading up to and following from that position.

Info

Day: 2025-05-16
Start time: 14:40
Duration: 00:30
Room: GWZ 2.316
Track: Theoretical Linguistics
Language: en

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