When a verb is followed by an infinitival complement, the particular verb determines whether
its subject or object is the understood subject of the infinitive. Thus, the verb “controls” the …

This paper examines verb processing during sentence comprehension. We describe two
experiments that assess the interaction between verb complexity and the structural …

An eye tracking experiment was conducted in order to investigate the role of verb
information in resolving structural ambiguity during sentence comprehension. Reading time …

Recent research has shown that language comprehenders make predictions about
upcoming linguistic information. These studies demonstrate that the processor not only …

Verbs, as a syntactic category, accept noun phrase complements (direct objects). Some
specific verbs require such complements, others prohibit them, while still others differ in the …

During sentence comprehension, events denoted by verbs must be related to other events
already established in the discourse. This often requires the tense of a verb to be evaluated …

Eyetracking and the self-paced moving-window reading paradigm were used in two
experiments examining the contributions of both frequency-based verb biases and the …

We describe a study that explores how the properties of a verb's lexical entry contribute to on-
line sentence processing. Schmauder (1991) has recently suggested that the verb …

Two experiments examined characteristics of text that determine when a repeated noun has
a clearly identified referent. Subjects read context-target sentence pairs in which one noun …

Comprehension of verb-phrase ellipsis (VPE) requires reevaluation of recently processed
constituents, which often necessitates retrieval of information about the elided constituent …