In three experiments using a speeded grammaticality judgement task the question was investigated of what role morphological ambiguity plays for syntactic ambiguity resolution. The stimuli were German verb-final clauses which are locally ambiguous between a subject-object and an object-subject reading and where the ambiguity is not caused by phrase-structural differences but by differing case-as...

representation of these structures (see Tomasello (2000) and references therein, and Sections 13.3.1 and 13.3.2). In theweird word order paradigm, children hear an experimenter describing events using a weird word order (e.g. Ernie Bert pushing or pushing Ernie Bert to describe Ernie pushing Bert) and are then asked to describe similar events in their own words. When the verb is frequent (e.g. ...

This document describes a sizable grammar of English written in the TAG formalism and implemented for use with the XTAG system. This report and the grammar described herein supersedes the TAG grammar described in [Abeill e et al., 1990]. The English grammar described in this report is based on the TAG formalism developed in [Joshi et al., 1975], which has been extended to include lexicalization...

generative grammars have traditionally been studied under the assumption that they are implementation independent. It is assumed, for example, that eventually we will be able to write software or build hardware to implement the human language system in computers that differ from human ‘hardware’ in many respects. As such, this is taken as evidence for implementation independence. This, however,...