The language comprehension system preferentially assumes that agents come first during
incremental processing. While this might reflect a biologically fixed bias, shared with other …

Do principles of language processing in the brain affect the way grammar evolves over time
or is language change just a matter of socio-historical contingency? While the balance of …

We investigate the relative impact of two influential theories of language comprehension,
viz., Dependency Locality Theory (Gibson, 2000; DLT) and Surprisal Theory (Hale, 2001; …

This study was conducted with the aim of exploring the general parsing mechanisms
involved in processing different kinds of dependency relations, namely verb agreement with …

The agent of an event–the one who is performing the action–plays a central role in human
cognition and in linguistic structure. Critically, the privileged role of the agent is argued to be …

The animate–inanimate distinction is of crucial importance cognitively, and animacy has
been known to influence language comprehension. However, little is known about the role …

The scrambling complexity hypothesis based on working memory or locality accounts as
well as syntactic accounts have proposed that processing a scrambled structure is difficult …

Deducing processing parity in the face of linguistic variation has been a key ambition for
neurolinguists as well as psycholinguists. However, the same has usually been tried only …

The Sanskrit grammatical tradition which has commenced with Panini's Astadhyayi mostly
as a Padasastra has culminated as a Vakyasastra, at the hands of Bhartrhari. The …

Der vorliegende Aufsatz beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, wie Argumente während des
Sprachverstehens erkannt werden, welche Eigenschaften einem Argument in Abwesenheit …