Heike Walker

List of John Benjamins publications in which Heike Walker is involved.

Title

Rightward Movement in a Comparative Perspective

Edited by Gert Webelhuth, Manfred Sailer and Heike Walker

This book represents the state of the art on rightward movement in one thematically coherent volume. It documents the growing importance of the combination of empirical and theoretical work in linguistic analysis. Several contributions argue that rightward movement is a means of reducing… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 200] 2013. viii, 476 pp.

Article

Walker, Heike 2013 Constraints on relative clause extraposition 
in English: An experimental investigation Rightward Movement in a Comparative Perspective, Webelhuth, Gert, Manfred Sailer and Heike Walker (eds.), pp. 145–172 | Article

In this paper, I present a psycholinguistic experiment on relative clause extraposition in English. In the theoretical literature, it has frequently been claimed that the acceptability of relative clause extraposition decreases when the antecedent NP of the relative clause is definite (the… read more