Research article summary:

Arguments for adjuncts.

Abstract Extract:
It is commonly assumed across the language sciences that some semantic participant information is lexically encoded in the representation of verbs and some is not. In this paper, we propose that semantic obligatoriness and verb class specificity are ... (Full abstract text below)

Published 2003Sep in Journal: Cognition (Language : eng)

Full Pubmed Extract

This information was retrieved, real-time, on your behalf from the public area of the Pubmed website:

1. Cognition. 2003 Sep;89(2):67-103

Arguments for adjuncts.

Koenig JP, Mauner G, Bienvenue B

Linguistics Department, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo, NY 14260, USA. jpkoening@acsu.buffalo.edu

It is commonly assumed across the language sciences that some semantic participant information is lexically encoded in the representation of verbs and some is not. In this paper, we propose that semantic obligatoriness and verb class specificity are criteria which influence whether semantic information is lexically encoded. We present a comprehensive survey of the English verbal lexicon, a sentence continuation study, and an on-line sentence processing study which confirm that both factors play a role in the lexical encoding of participant information.

PMID : 12915295 [PubMed - Indexed for MEDLINE]

This information is obtained from the National Library of Medicine (NLM). Abstract text and other information may be subject to copyright. Type "NLM copyright" into Google for more information.

Full Author Information

First Name	LastName	Initials
Jean Pierre	Koenig	JP
Gail	Mauner	G
Breton	Bienvenue	B

Affiliation: Linguistics Department, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo, NY 14260, USA. jpkoening@acsu.buffalo.edu

3rd Party provider links

Click the links below to go to related 3rd party information:

MESH categories and related page links

This article was linked to the MESH categories shown on the left below. The links on the right are related Memletics pages.

Category links from this article:

Adult
Data Collection
Humans
Language
Mental Processes
Semantics

Links for this article

For links to places where you can get the full text of this article see links. Note there may be a subscription or fee required for access to the full text.

New! Using similar technology to this site, we have launched find-health-articles.com, targeting over 1 million health research article abstracts.

Here are some articles related to this one (by title keywords):

Judgments of grammaticality of Japanese sentences lacking an argument or an adjunct.

Comprehending noun phrase arguments and adjuncts.

A defence of the potential future of value theory.

MEDICOL: online learning in medicine and dentistry.

A clinical ladder program based on Carpers Fundamental Patterns of Knowing in Nursing.

Characteristics of new clients at self-help and community mental health agencies in geographic proximity.

The role of text representation in students ability to identify fallacious arguments.

Reasoning in bioethics.

Language-general and language-specific influences on childrens acquisition of argument structure: a comparison of French and English.

Deductive reasoning from uncertain conditionals.

>>> Get more research article abstracts like these, or browse abstracts.

Keywords in this article:

across, assumed, class, commonly, comprehensive, confirm, continuation, criteria, encoding, english, factors, influence, language, lexicon, line, not, obligatoriness, paper, play, processing, propose, representation, role, sciences, specificity, survey, verbal, verbs, whether

Also, see our new free speed reading online course (beta version)