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The preceding chapter has documented a wide range of first-pass preferences found in syntactic-function ambiguities which could be summarized by the Case Assignment Generalization “NOM > ACC > DAT”. To date, only one systematic exception to this generalization has been identified. This exception, which we have—following psycholinguistic and philological tradition—termed CASE ATTRACTION in prior work (cf. Bader, 1997; Bader and Meng, 1999), will be the topic of the current chapter. To introduce the phenomenon of Case attraction, consider the following contrasts which were noted in Bader (1994).
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BADER, M., BAYER, J. (2006). THE MENTAL REPRESENTATION OF CASE. In: CASE AND LINKING IN LANGUAGE COMPREHENSION. STUDIES IN THEORETICAL PSYCHOLINGUISTICS, vol 34. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4344-9_5
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