Syntactic Parsing Strategies in Italian: The Minimal Chain Principle

I. Introduction Parsing strategies.- II. Experiment 1: Declaratives With Post-Verbal Subject.- III. Experiment 2: The Cost of Chains in Parsing: Processing Declaratives With Unaccusative or Unergative Verbs.- IV. Experiment 3: Referential and Non-Referential Wh-Dependencies.- V. Experiment 4: Wh-Questions with Post-Clausal Disambiguation.- VI. Experiment 5: The Minimal Chain Principle and the Grammar of the Langauge.- VII. General Discussion.- Appendices.- Material, Experiment 1.- Material, Experiment 2.- Material, Experiment 3.- Material, Experiment 4.- Material, Experiment 5.- Index of Subjects.- Index of Authors.