Investigating shared and distinct mechanisms in semantic and syntactic enrichment: A priming study
Language, Cognition and Neuroscience / 37 / 8 / 1062-1072
Investigating shared and distinct mechanisms in semantic and syntactic enrichment: a priming study
10.1080/23273798.2022.2036781 / LANGUAGE COGNITION AND NEUROSCIENCE
Processing of Complement Coercion With Aspectual Verbs in Mandarin Chinese: Evidence From a Self-Paced Reading Study
Published in Frontiers in Psychology
This study examines whether Chinese complement coercion sentences with aspectual verbs will elicit processing difficulty during real-time comprehension. Complement coercion is a linguistic phenomenon in which certain verbs (e.g., start, enjoy), requiring an event-denoting complement, are combined with an entity-denoting complement (e.g., book), as ...
Complement Coercion: The Joint Effects of Type and Typicality
Published in Frontiers in Psychology
Complement coercion (begin a book →reading) involves a type clash between an event-selecting verb and an entity-denoting object, triggering a covert event (reading). Two main factors involved in complement coercion have been investigated: the semantic type of the object (event vs. entity), and the typicality of the covert event (the author began a ...
Mismatches in verb complements: A corpus-based study of the complement coercion operation in Chinese
Published in Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory
While much attention has been paid to the complement coercion operation in English (e.g., began a book), the same phenomenon in Chinese is still under-researched. Our study examines twenty coercing verbs in Chinese, creating a coercion profile for each verb and conducting a cluster analysis based on the coercion profiles. The results suggest that s...
