This dissertation shows how languages differ in their morphosyntactic sensitivity to
variations in the semantics of direct objects. Whereas some languages reflect semantic …

Indicating verbs can be directed toward locations in space associated with their arguments.
The primary debate about these verbs is whether this directionality is akin to grammatical …

Animacy, argument structure, and argument encoding Page 1 Animacy, argument structure,
and argument encoding Peter de Swart *, Monique Lamers, Sander Lestrade Department of …

Animacy is known to play an important role in language processing and production, but
debate remains as to how it exerts its effects:(1) through links to syntactic ordering,(2) …

This book explains a well-known puzzle that helped catalyze the establishment of
generative syntax: how children tease apart the different syntactic structures associated with …

This chapter addresses the role of case and animacy as interacting cues to role-semantic
interpretation in grammar and language processing. Animacy is interpreted as a cue to …

Sentence production relies on the activation of semantic information (eg, noun animacy) and
syntactic frames that specify an order for grammatical functions (eg, subject before object) …

This book investigates the morphosyntactic, semantic, and pragmatic properties of
language, and the interactions between them, from the perspective of Optimality Theory. It …

Experimental studies show that children have greater difficulty with wh-extraction from object
position than subject position, arguably an intervention effect (eg, Relativized Minimality). In …

A central component of sentence understanding is verb-argument interpretation,
determining how the referents in the sentence are related to the events or states expressed …