We argue that the interpretation of transitive aspectual-verb sentences like “Sue finishes the
book” results from an evaluation of the degree of asymmetry in control power between the …

I explore the hypothesis that the experience of meaning discreteness when we think about
the “meaning” of a word is a “communicative” illusion. The illusion is created by processing …

Aspectual verbs, like begin, start, continue, finish, and end, have been shown in recent
literature to participate in several linguistic phenomena, resulting in a complex array of …

Grammaticalization clines are a widely covered topic in the language change literature, but
the birth of diachronic semantic experimental work and computational linguistic modeling for …