In this article, we explore whether cross‐linguistic differences in grammatical aspect
encoding may give rise to differences in memory and cognition. We compared native …

Dynamic conceptualization is a fundamental notion in cognitive linguistics. Abstract motion
is one type of dynamic conceptualization. It is said to structure descriptions of static scenes …

Recent research using eye-tracking typically relies on constrained visual contexts in
particular goal-oriented contexts, viewing a small array of objects on a computer screen and …

Many languages have grammatical means to indicate the time when an action or event
occurs, or when a state or process holds. This phenomenon is called tense. In English, for …

The present study investigates the cross-linguistic processing of aspect in English and
German. Three self-paced reading experiments provide evidence that coercion of a (simple) …

This paper reports a cross-linguistic study on the time course of aspectual interpretation in
an aspect language (Russian) and a non-aspect language (German). In Russian …

How do people describe events they have witnessed? What role does linguistic aspect play
in this process? To provide answers to these questions, we conducted an experiment on …

Aspect expresses information about how events unfold in time. In English, imperfective
aspect is known to widen the temporal scope of the event described, but little is known about …

This article explores US English speakers' perception of subject–verb agreement variation
by using self-paced reading and mouse tracking. Two experiments exposed participants to …

Grammatical aspect is known to shape event understanding. However, little is known about
how it interacts with other important temporal information, such as recent and distant past …