Preface

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Words, numbers and all that 1
5. The lexicon in Optimality Theory 39
6. Optimality–theoretic Lexical Functional Grammar 59
7. The lexicon and the laundromat 75
8. Semantics in the spin cycle 85
9. Connectionist and symbolist sentence processing 95
10. A computational model of the grammatical aspects of word recognition as supertagging 109
11. Incrementality and lexicalism 137
12. Modular architectures and statistical mechanisms 157
13. Encoding and storage in working memory during sentence comprehension 181
14. The time course of information integration in sentence processing 207
15. The lexical source of unexpressed participants and their role in sentence and discourse understanding 233
16. Reduced relatives judged hard require constraint-based analyses 255
17. Predicting thematic role assignments in context 281
18. Lexical semantics as a basis for argument structure frequency biases 303
19. Verb sense and verb subcategorization probabilities 325
20. Author index 347
21. Item index 355