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Direct linkArregui, Ana; Clifton, Charles, Jr.; Frazier, Lyn; Moulton, Keir – Journal of Memory and Language, 2006
Traditional syntactic accounts of verb phrase ellipsis (e.g., ''Jason laughed. Sam did [ ] too.'') categorize as ungrammatical many sentences that language users find acceptable (they ''undergenerate''); semantic accounts overgenerate. We propose that a processing theory, together with a syntactic account, does a better job of describing and…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Verbs, Phrase Structure, Semantics
