Revisiting subjunctive obviation in French: a formal acceptability judgment study

Even though the weakening of the subjunctive disjoint reference effect, also known as obviation, plays an important role in the research of subjunctives in (non-)Romance languages, to the best of our knowledge it has never been verified experimentally. The goal of our paper is to test how native spe...

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Autores: Feldhausen, Ingo, Buchczyk, Sebastian
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Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Recursos:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repositorio:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
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Palavra-chave:French
Mood
Subjunctive
Disjoint reference
Obviation weakening
Reliability
Acceptability judgment
Formal method
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spelling Revisiting subjunctive obviation in French: a formal acceptability judgment studyFeldhausen, IngoBuchczyk, SebastianFrenchMoodSubjunctiveDisjoint referenceObviation weakeningReliabilityAcceptability judgmentFormal methodEven though the weakening of the subjunctive disjoint reference effect, also known as obviation, plays an important role in the research of subjunctives in (non-)Romance languages, to the best of our knowledge it has never been verified experimentally. The goal of our paper is to test how native speakers of (European) French evaluate sentences displaying factors that (according to Ruwet 1991) should weaken obviation using a formal acceptability judgment task. Our results show that we were unable to replicate Ruwet’s observations (when averaging over multiple participants): only one out of six factors described by Ruwet seems to clearly weaken obviation, namely Coordination. We conclude that (a) French may be a language for which formal experimentation of complex data is useful, (b) idiolects should not be ignored, and (c) our results challenge theoretical accounts of obviation weakening. Finally, we relate our study to the ongoing discussion on whether informal methods of collecting acceptability judgments (such as introspection by the author) need to be verified by formal methods.Ubiquity Press202220222021info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10230/52533http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.1219reponame:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunyainstname:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)InglésGlossa: a journal of general linguistics. 2021;6(1):59.© 2021 The Author(s). L'accés als continguts d'aquest document queda condicionat a l'acceptació de les condicions d'ús establertes per la següent llicència Creative Commons https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:recercat.cat:10230/525332026-05-29T05:05:01Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Revisiting subjunctive obviation in French: a formal acceptability judgment study
title Revisiting subjunctive obviation in French: a formal acceptability judgment study
spellingShingle Revisiting subjunctive obviation in French: a formal acceptability judgment study
Feldhausen, Ingo
French
Mood
Subjunctive
Disjoint reference
Obviation weakening
Reliability
Acceptability judgment
Formal method
title_short Revisiting subjunctive obviation in French: a formal acceptability judgment study
title_full Revisiting subjunctive obviation in French: a formal acceptability judgment study
title_fullStr Revisiting subjunctive obviation in French: a formal acceptability judgment study
title_full_unstemmed Revisiting subjunctive obviation in French: a formal acceptability judgment study
title_sort Revisiting subjunctive obviation in French: a formal acceptability judgment study
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Feldhausen, Ingo
Buchczyk, Sebastian
author Feldhausen, Ingo
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Buchczyk, Sebastian
author_role author
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv French
Mood
Subjunctive
Disjoint reference
Obviation weakening
Reliability
Acceptability judgment
Formal method
topic French
Mood
Subjunctive
Disjoint reference
Obviation weakening
Reliability
Acceptability judgment
Formal method
description Even though the weakening of the subjunctive disjoint reference effect, also known as obviation, plays an important role in the research of subjunctives in (non-)Romance languages, to the best of our knowledge it has never been verified experimentally. The goal of our paper is to test how native speakers of (European) French evaluate sentences displaying factors that (according to Ruwet 1991) should weaken obviation using a formal acceptability judgment task. Our results show that we were unable to replicate Ruwet’s observations (when averaging over multiple participants): only one out of six factors described by Ruwet seems to clearly weaken obviation, namely Coordination. We conclude that (a) French may be a language for which formal experimentation of complex data is useful, (b) idiolects should not be ignored, and (c) our results challenge theoretical accounts of obviation weakening. Finally, we relate our study to the ongoing discussion on whether informal methods of collecting acceptability judgments (such as introspection by the author) need to be verified by formal methods.
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