The leaf fell (the leaf): The online processing of unaccusatives

Linguistic Inquiry

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 355-377

  Friedmann, Naama ^a   Taranto, Gina ^b   Shapiro, Lewis P ^c   Swinney, David ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b San Diego State University ^*

^c SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

English; Gap filling; NP movement; Priming; Unaccusative hypothesis; Unaccusatives

Indexed keywords

EID: 47949129643     PISSN: 00243892     EISSN: 00243892     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/ling.2008.39.3.355     Document Type: Article

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