Date:  30.09.2004

Time:  19:15

Harald Clahsen (Essex): Finiteness and Verb-Second in German Agrammatism

Additional information:
We present results from sentence-completion and grammaticality-judgment tasks with German-speaking agrammatic aphasics and age-matched control subjects examining verb finiteness marking and verb-second (V2) placement. The patients were found to be selectively impaired in tense marking in the face of preserved mood and agreement marking. Moreover, our results revealed that V2 scores varied across our patients, with some showing impaired and others preserved V2 performance. These findings will be discussed in the light of different syntactic accounts of agrammatism.