Abstract
There are only few reports about how the presence of different morphemes marking syntactic roles, such as case, interacts with syntactic priming. This contribution reports on two experiments that investigated the syntactic priming in Czech.
We focused on dative-accusative structures where we previously found priming effect. In one type of primes, nouns were chosen so that the dative and accusative case were marked with the same endings as in the target structures.
In the other condition, the dative and accusative endings differed from the targets. The results (N=63) suggest that the overlap between case-marking morphemes has no effect on the overall priming effects, confirming analogous findings on free function morphemes (Bock, 1989).
However, the results might be distorted because just few participants used expected words with same endings. That's why we conducted second experiment with same design but added hint in form of first two words in target sentence to elicit production of anticipated nouns.
The results (N=64) confirmed priming for dative-accusative structures but also did not support the thesis that case markings play a role in the syntactic priming.