Variable Binding into two Central Adverbial Clauses and two Peripheral Adverbial Clauses using the QP jede NP 'every NP', testing for an effect of genericity (1)

The experimental tool used was Variable Binding in order to investigate the degree of integration of German peripheral adverbial clauses introduced by adversative während 'while, whereas' and by concessive obwohl 'although', and German central adverbial clauses, introduced by temporal während 'while' and temporal nachdem 'after', into their main clauses.

This experiment repeats a previous experiment that presumably contained generic sentence material, now changing the sentence material to be more episodic. Fox & Sauerland (1996) claim that genericity might create an "illusion of binding". This might be the case in peripheral-adverbial-clause conditions that should not allow binding but still received quite acceptable judgements in previous studies - which is not predicted in the literature.