Within the cognitive sciences, most researchers assume that it is the job of linguists to
investigate how language is represented, and that they do so largely by building theories …

The generative enterprise in linguistics is roughly 50 years old, and it is reasonable to ask
what progress the field has made in certain areas over the past five decades. This article will …

This article discusses the transitivity alternation between lexical causative verbs and their
anticausative (inchoative) counterparts. It provides an overview of the semantic, syntactic …

Many syntactic theories posit a fundamental structural difference between intransitive verbs
with agentive subjects (unergative verbs) and those with theme subjects (unaccusative …

People with agrammatic aphasia often experience greater difficulty comprehending passive
compared to active sentences. The Trace Deletion Hypothesis (TDH; Grodzinsky, 2000) …

This book examines a challenging problem at the intersection of theoretical linguistics and
the psychology of language: the interpretation of gradient judgments of sentence …

Abstract Language models based on artificial neural networks increasingly capture key
aspects of how humans process sentences. Most notably, model-based surprisals predict …

This volume brings together cutting-edge experimental research from leaders in the fields of
linguistics and psycholinguistics to explore the nature of a phenomenon that has long been …

Verbs are central to sentence processing, as they encode argument structure (AS)
information, ie, information about the syntax and interpretation of the phrases accompanying …

Previous research has found that the single argument of unaccusative verbs (such as fall) is
reactivated during sentence processing, but the argument of agentive verbs (such as jump) …