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)" …

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 …

The term “coercion” has been used in linguistics to define a wide range of phenomena in
which semantic mismatches are resolved through extra-syntactic processing (Jackendoff …

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

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

Two eye-tracking experiments examined the effects of sentence structure on the processing
of complement coercion, in which an event-selecting verb combines with a complement that …

This dissertation investigates how the human language processor determines coreferential
relations among elements within a sentence during sentence comprehension. This …

The study aims to explore the processing pattern of Mandarin Chinese sentences with
complement coercion. Complement coercion is a known linguistic phenomenon in which …

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 …

In principle, comprehenders might always make immediate commitments to the
interpretation of expressions (full commitment) or wait until such decisions are necessary …