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 …

This study examines whether Chinese complement coercion sentences with aspectual verbs
will elicit processing difficulty during real-time comprehension. Complement coercion is a …

Although Complement Coercion has been systematically associated with computational
cost, there remains a serious confound in the experimental evidence built up in previous …

The so-called coercion verbs have been taken to select for an event as their complement,
and to coerce an entity-denoting complement into an event as a resolution to the predictable …

Previous behavioral and electrophysiological studies have presented evidence suggesting
that coercion expressions (eg, began the book) are more difficult to process than control …

Aspectual verbs like begin, start and finish form a subset of the class of 'coercion verbs'
implicated in the phenomenon of complement coercion. Such verbs have been assumed to …

An eye-movement study examined the processing of expressions requiring complement
coercion (J. Pustejovsky, 1995), in which a noun phrase that does not denote an event (eg …

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)" …

Previous work has shown that the difficulty associated with processing complex semantic
expressions is reduced when the critical constituents appear in separate clauses as …

This study examined whether entity-denoting complements of psych verbs and aspectual
verbs engender identical processing profiles. Previous literature has suggested that both …