The distribution of locative inversions: Testing structural vs processing accounts

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It has been observed that some unusual word orders - referred to as ‘Main Clause Phenomena’ (MCPs) - are used almost exclusively in main clauses. Emonds (1969; E69) hypothesized that only in main clauses the long-distance relations needed to produce MCPs can be established; Temperley (2019; T19) proposed that MCPs occur in main clauses because those clauses tend to appear in sentence-initial position where processing is easier than in sentence-internal positions. Here, we aim to test these hypotheses with two acceptability-judgement studies. Our findings are consistent with T19: MCPs like locative inversion are easiest to process in sentence-initial positions.

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