Language production processes can provide insight into how language comprehension
works and language typology—why languages tend to have certain characteristics more …

The present study uses probabilistic models of corpus data in a novel way, to measure and
compare the syntactic predictive capacities of speakers of different varieties of the same …

This work focuses on explaining both grammatical universals of word order and quantitative
word-order preferences in usage by means of a simple efficiency principle: dependency …

This article discusses three asymmetries in ditransitives—quantifier scope, nominalizations,
and idioms—and argues that an asymmetric theory like that advocated by Marantz (1993) …

We challenge the predominant view of the English dative alternation, which takes all
alternating verbs to have two meanings: a caused possession meaning realized by the …

A persistent mystery in language acquisition is how speakers are able to learn seemingly
arbitrary distributional restrictions. This article investigates one such case: the fact that …

Structural priming is the phenomenon that speakers tend to re-use structures they have
recently comprehended or produced themselves. Most studies on this topic are experimental …

Recent work by Bresnan and colleagues (Bresnan 2007, Bresnan et al. 2007, Bresnan and
Nikitina 2007) has argued that double object and prepositional dative constructions are …

The obligatory use of the preposition a with animate, specific direct objects in Spanish (Juan
conoce a María “Juan knows Maria”) is a well-known instance of Differential Object Marking …

Children find object relative clauses difficult. They show poor comprehension that lags
behind production into their fifth year. This finding has shaped models of relative clause …