Thematic role properties of subjects and objects

Cognition

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-42

  Kako, Edward ^a  

^a SWARTHMORE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Event participants; Semantics of syntax; Thematic roles

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; LANGUAGE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; THEMATIC ANALYSIS; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; CHILD; CHILD LANGUAGE; CONCEPT FORMATION; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS;

EID: 33745486234     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2005.08.002     Document Type: Article

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