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Relevance of adverb distribution for the analysis of sentence representation in agrammatic patients
1Department of Neurology, Università degli Studi, Milan, Italy.
Abstract:
In this study, it is shown that functional categories are present in agrammatic grammar. Specifically, the verb-adverb order is investigated in three agrammatic patients by means of a constituent ordering task. It is shown that when the verb is in a nonfinite form, it either precedes or follows the specifier-like adverb (both positions are correct), but when the verb is finite, the adverb always follows it (which is the only possible order). The conclusions are that (i) a functional category (namely Inflection), which is responsible for the relative order verb-adverb (of the relevant class), must exist in agrammatic grammar, and (ii) agrammatic aphasia cannot be described as a syntactic impairment involving basic sentence structure.
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