The meaning of most words in language depends on their context. Understanding how the
human brain extracts contextualized meaning, and identifying where in the brain this takes …

We argue that the interpretation of transitive aspectual-verb sentences like “Sue finishes the
book” results from an evaluation of the degree of asymmetry in control power between the …

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

Crowdsourcing has eased and scaled up the collection of linguistic annotation in recent
years. In this work, we follow known methodologies of collecting labeled data for the …

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

We examine the distinction between animacy, a conceptual property, and agency, a
conceptual and linguistic property involved in semantic role assignment. Are these two …

The distinction between mass nouns and count nouns has a long history in formal
semantics, and linguists have been trying to identify the semantic properties defining the two …

(in English) This study examines the processing of sentences like" The athlete jumped for 20
minutes", which involve an iterative meaning that is morpho-syntactically absent yet well …

Abstract Sentences like (1)“The singer began the album” are ambiguous between an
agentive reading (The singer began recording/playing/etc. the album) and a constitutive …

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