title: Arguments for adjuncts.
abstract: It is commonly assumed across the language sciences that some semantic participant information is lexically encoded in the representation of verbs and some is not. In this paper, we propose that semantic obligatoriness and verb class specificity are criteria which influence whether semantic information is lexically encoded. We present a comprehensive survey of the English verbal lexicon, a sentence continuation study, and an on-line sentence processing study which confirm that both factors play a role in the lexical encoding of participant information.
authors.affiliation: Linguistics Department, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo, NY 14260, USA. jpkoening@acsu.buffalo.edu
authors.forename: Jean Pierre
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Koenig
authors.forename: Gail
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Mauner
authors.forename: Breton
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Bienvenue
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003625:Data Collection; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008606:Mental Processes; D012660:Semantics