Complement coercion (begin a book→ reading) involves a type clash between an event-
selecting verb and an entity-denoting object, triggering a covert event (reading). Two main …

Cross-linguistic priming in comprehension is understudied, and it remains unclear whether
bilinguals have shared abstract syntactic representations during sentence comprehension …

This article presents a method to construct event semantic representations incrementally
from left to right. The proposed theory focusses on the interaction between events and other …

Despite the number of NLP studies dedicated to thematic fit estimation, little attention has
been paid to the related task of composing and updating verb argument expectations. The …

A fundamental goal of psycholinguistic research is to understand the architectures and
mechanisms that underlie language comprehension. Such an account entails an …

The current study tackles a long standing question of whether comprehenders perform
structural revision when it is not forced by grammar or not. Using an eye-tracking reading …

The current study examined whether thematic relations of the novel words could be acquired
via descriptive episodes, and if yes, whether it could be generalized to thematically related …

Verbs with multiple senses can show varying argument structure frequencies, depending on
the underlying sense. When acknowledge is used to mean 'recognise', it takes a direct …

Complement coercion refers to a phenomenon that an entity-denoting complement following
verbs such as begin and enjoy, receives an eventive reading. For example. sentence (1)" …

Rumors inundate every social network. Some of them are true, but many of them are false.
On rare occasions, a false rumor is exposed as the lie that it is. But more commonly, false …