This paper explores the nature of thematic information made available when a verb is
accessed during sentence comprehension. Following Shapiro, Zurif, and Grimshaw (1987) …

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

This study examines verb processing during sentence comprehension. We describe two
experiments that assess whether or not a verb's representational complexity affects real-time …

Abstract Fodor, Garrett, and Bever have reported two experiments suggesting that sentences
containing complex verbs are more difficult to comprehend than ones containing simple …

This dissertation examines the mental representation and processing of verbs and presents
empirical evidence for the processing reality of the notion of participant roles--thematic roles …

This paper describes an ongoing research program designed to investigate how syntactic
and semantic aspects of lexical information become available to the sentence processing …

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

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 …

Subjects read aloud the verb IS and ARE that was projected to interrupt a spoken sentence:
immediately preceding the projected word, the sentence contianed a “verb”+ ing noun” …

Two experiments are described in which participants read sentences of the form “He drank
some…” in contexts which either did or did not introduce something drinkable. Participants …