McGee’s counterexample to Modus Ponens in context

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Part 1: Methods and analysis
5. Incremental truth value judgments 3
6. Measuring Syntactic Priming in Dialogue Corpora 29
7. How structure-sensitive is the parser? Evidence from Mandarin Chinese 43
8. The annotation of preposition senses in German 63
9. Part 2: Applications to linguistic theory
10. Evidence about evidentials: Where fieldwork meets theory 85
11. Crosslinguistic variation in comparison: evidence from child language acquisition 115
12. Restricting quantifier scope in Dutch: Evidence from child language comprehension and production 147
13. McGee’s counterexample to Modus Ponens in context 169
14. Interpreting adjectival passives: Evidence for the activation of contrasting states 187
15. Focus projection between theory and evidence 207
16. Locative Inversion in English: Implications of a Rating Study 241
17. Part 3: Cognitive and neurological basis of language
18. Word- vs. sentence-based simulation effects in language comprehension 267
19. Language skills in patients with reorganized language (RL) 291
20. Predicting speech imitation ability biometrically 317
21. Index 341