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A monograph that addresses divergent views in the linguistic literature on whether German displays the that-trace effect and other subject/object asymmetries commonly found for long extractions in English and other languages. It provides fresh insights into the question on how to analyse German constructions such as Wer glaubst du hat recht?

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This volume is the first in-depth empirical study of long extraction in German, using experimental rating studies. The results invite the linguist to take a fresh look at the nature of universal grammar and the issue of parameter setting, suggesting that parameters are set by threshold levels in an underlying system of continuous deviations from universal principles. -- Wolfgang Sternefeld, University of Tubingen

This volume is the first in-depth empirical study of long extraction in German, using experimental rating studies. The results invite the linguist to take a fresh look at the nature of universal grammar and the issue of parameter setting, suggesting that parameters are set by threshold levels in an underlying system of continuous deviations from universal principles. -- Wolfgang Sternefeld, University of Tübingen

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