Subject — Not Only Object — of Study

Subject index (e-only pages)

Subject Index (E-only pages)

Subject Index (E-only pages)

A subject-object asymmetry in the online processing of 'only': evidence from eye-tracking

While most formal semantic accounts of focus-sensitive particles such as ‘only’ acknowledge that their interpretation requires the integration of contextual information with the linguistic representation, it is less clear how this interaction plays out in real-time. Recent psycholinguistic work in this domain favors an incremental processing story, but divergent results elsewhere complicate thi...

Incremental distinguishability of subject and object

The subject and the object in a transitive clause should be distinguishable. We discuss five different ways in which distinguishability can be obtained: (i) case morphology, (ii) agreement, (iii) selectional criteria of the verb, (iv) word order, and (v) prominence, in particular animacy. We argue that these different sources of information can be viewed as violable and potentially conflicting ...