Overview

Language users have access to several sources of information during the build up of a meaningful construction. These include grammatical rules, situational knowledge, and general world knowledge. A central role in this process is played by the argument structure of verbs, which establishes the syntactic and semantic relationships between arguments. This book provides an overview of recent psycholinguistic and theoretical investigations on the interplay between structural syntactic relations and role semantics. The focus herein lies on the interaction of case marking and word order with semantic prominence features, such as animacy and definiteness. The interaction of these different sorts of information is addressed from theoretical, time-insensitive, and incremental perspectives, or a combination of these. Taking a broad cross-linguistic perspective, this book bridges the gap between theoretical and psycholinguistic approaches to argument structure.

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Author:   Monique Lamers ,  Peter de Swart
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   2012
Volume:   40
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.687kg
ISBN:  

9789400714625

ISBN 10:   9400714629
Pages:   332
Publication Date:   20 October 2011
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface.- Contributors.- List of Abbreviations.- 1. The Interaction of Case, Word Order and Prominence: Language Production and Comprehension in a Cross-Linguistic Perspective.- 2.  A Lexical-functional Account of Spanish Dative Usage.- 3. Case in Conflict: Embedded Subjects in Mongolian.- 4. Animacy, Generalized Semantic Roles, and Differential Object Marking.- 5. The Role of Animacy in Online Argument Interpretation in Mandarin Chinese.- 6. Argument Linearization in Dutch: a Multi-factorial Approach.- 7. Case Inversion in Georgian: Syntactic Properties and Sentence Processing .-  8. The Impact of Case and Prosody on the Availability of Argument Structures.- 9. Case Matching and Conflicting Bindings Interference.- 10. Processing Verb Medial Word Orders in a Verb Final Language.- 11. Prominence Facilitates Ambiguity Resolution: On the Interaction between Referentiality, Thematic Roles and Word Order in Syntactic Reanalysis.- 12. Grammar- versus Frequency-driven Syntactic Ambiguity Resolution: The Case of Double-Object Constructions.- 13.  Lexical Preference and Global Structure Contributions to Syntactic Choice in Sentence Production.- Index.

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