The seminal Bradley-Terry model exhibits transitivity, i.e., the property that probabilities of player A beating B and C give probability C, with these determined by a skill parameter for each player. Such transitive models do not account different strategies play between pair players, which gives rise to {\it intransitivity}. Various intransitive parametric have been proposed but they lack fle...

W. Ulrich ([email protected]), Chair of Ecology and Biogeography, Nicolaus Copernicus Univ. in Toruń, Lwowska1, PL-87-100 Toruń, Poland. – S. Soliveres and F. T. Maestre, Área de Biodiversidad y Conservación, Depto de Biología y Geología, Escuela Superior de Ciencias Experimentales y Tecnología, Univ. Rey Juan Carlos, ES-28933 Móstoles, Spain. SS also at: Inst. of Plant Sciences, Univ. of Bern, Al...

Several previous studies (B. C. Adams, C. Clifton, & D. C. Mitchell, 1998; D. C. Mitchell, 1987; R. P. G. van Gompel & M. J. Pickering, 2001) have explored the question of whether the parser initially analyzes a noun phrase that follows an intransitive verb as the verb's direct object. Three eye-tracking experiments examined this issue in more detail. Experiment 1 replicated the finding that re...

Several models of decision-making imply systematic violations of transitivity of preference. Our experiments explored whether people show patterns of intransitivity predicted by regret theory and majority rule. To distinguish “true” violations from those produced by “error,” a model was fit in which each choice can have a different error rate and each person can have a different pattern of true...

Unaccusativity, or split intransitivity, refers to the generalization that intransitive verbs divide into two subclasses, unaccusatives and unergatives. While the core arguments of unaccusatives share common properties with direct objects of transitive verbs, the core arguments of unergatives do so with transitive subjects. The Unaccusative Hypothesis (Perlmutter 1978; Burzio 1986) accounts for...