Case, Word Order and Prominence

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xv

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2. The Interaction of Case, Word Order and Prominence: Language Production and Comprehension in a Cross-linguistic Perspective

   • Monique J. A. Lamers, Peter de Swart

   Pages 1-15

3. A Lexical-Functional Account of Spanish Dative Usage

   • Raúl Aranovich

   Pages 17-41

4. Case in Conflict: Embedded Subjects in Mongolian

   • Udo Klein, Dolgor Guntsetseg, Klaus von Heusinger

   Pages 43-64

5. Animacy, Generalized Semantic Roles, and Differential Object Marking

   • Beatrice Primus

   Pages 65-90

6. The Role of Animacy in Online Argument Interpretation in Mandarin Chinese

   • Luming Wang, Matthias Schlesewsky, Markus Philipp, Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky

   Pages 91-119

7. Argument Linearization in Dutch: A Multi-factorial Approach

   • Monique J. A. Lamers

   Pages 121-144

8. Case Inversion in Georgian: Syntactic Properties and Sentence Processing

   • Stavros Skopeteas, Gisbert Fanselow, Rusudan Asatiani

   Pages 145-171

9. The Impact of Case and Prosody on the Availability of Argument Structures

   • Sandra Pappert, Thomas Pechmann

   Pages 173-186

10. Case Matching and Conflicting Bindings Interference

    • Pavel Logačev, Shravan Vasishth

    Pages 187-216

11. Processing Verb Medial Word Orders in a Verb Final Language

    • Kepa Erdocia, Itziar Laka, Antoni Rodriguez-Fornells

    Pages 217-237

12. Prominence Facilitates Ambiguity Resolution: On the Interaction Between Referentiality, Thematic Roles and Word Order in Syntactic Reanalysis

    • Franziska Kretzschmar, Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, Adrian Staub, Dietmar Roehm, Matthias Schlesewsky

    Pages 239-271

13. Grammar- Versus Frequency-Driven Syntactic Ambiguity Resolution: The Case of Double-Object Constructions

    • Jana Häussler, Markus Bader

    Pages 273-301

14. Lexical Preference and Global Structure Contributions to Syntactic Choice in Sentence Production

    • Clare J. Huxley, Janet F. McLean, Holly P. Branigan, Martin J. Pickering

    Pages 303-325

15. Back Matter

    Pages 327-329

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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.

• Argument structure
• Case marking
• Grammatical rules
• Incremental processing
• Prominence
• Role semantics
• Transitivity
• Verb structure
• Word order

• , Department of Language & Communication, Vrij Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands

  Monique Lamers

• , Center for Language & Cognition, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands

  Peter de Swart

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