Case, Word Order and Prominence Interacting Cues in Language Production and Comprehension

Language users access an array of information during the construction and interpretation of utterances, including grammatical rules and situational knowledge. The argument structure of verbs, which establishes the syntactic and semantic relationships between arguments, plays a key role in this proce...

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Other Authors: Lamers, Monique (Editor), de Swart, Peter (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 2012, 2012
Edition:1st ed. 2012
Series:Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Contributors
  • List of Abbreviations
  • 1. The Interaction of Case, Word Order and Prominence: Language Production and Comprehension in a Cross-Linguistic Perspective
  • 2.  A Lexical-functional Account of Spanish Dative Usage
  • 3. Case in Conflict: Embedded Subjects in Mongolian
  • 4. Animacy, Generalized Semantic Roles, and Differential Object Marking
  • 5. The Role of Animacy in Online Argument Interpretation in Mandarin Chinese
  • 6. Argument Linearization in Dutch: a Multi-factorial Approach
  • 7. Case Inversion in Georgian: Syntactic Properties and Sentence Processing 
  •  8. The Impact of Case and Prosody on the Availability of Argument Structures
  • 9. Case Matching and Conflicting Bindings Interference
  • 10. Processing Verb Medial Word Orders in a Verb Final Language
  • 11. Prominence Facilitates Ambiguity Resolution: On the Interaction between Referentiality, Thematic Roles and Word Order in Syntactic Reanalysis
  • 12. Grammar- versus Frequency-driven Syntactic Ambiguity Resolution: The Case of Double-Object Constructions
  • 13.  Lexical Preference and Global Structure Contributions to Syntactic Choice in Sentence Production
  • Index