Inflectional values, such as singular and plural, sustain agreement relations between
constituents in sentences, allowing sentence parsing and prediction in online processing …

The concept of the morphome (ie a morphological unit at odds with syntax and semantics) is
notoriously uncomfortable for many formal models of morphology. Many discussions have …

Introduction Animacy distinguishes living (animate) things from non-living (inanimate) things.
People tend to devote attention and processing to living over nonliving things, resulting in a …

Reading is both a visual and a linguistic task, and as such it relies on both general-purpose,
visual mechanisms and more abstract, meaning-oriented processes. Disentangling the roles …

In most natural languages, grammatical gender and number features encode semantic
attributes concerning animacy, sex, and numerosity. Despite the likely advantage of …

In a recent article, Everett (2019) proposed a culturecentered account of the distribution of
the observed values for an almost universal grammatical feature, morphological Number …

While there is some controversy in the literature on the count–mass distinction concerning its
lexical base (with some proponents assuming that the count–-mass distinction is not a …

Animacy influences the grammar of languages in different ways, although it often goes
unnoticed. Did you know that in English there is a strong tendency towards using the Saxon …

Reading is both a visual and a linguistic task, and as such it relies on both general-purpose,
visual mechanisms and more abstract, meaning-oriented processes. Disentangling the roles …

This thesis analyzes if animacy facilitates the visual recognition of words in Spanish. I
compared native-speaker reaction times to Spanish words with animate and inanimate …