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Journal of Semantics Advance Access originally published online on July 16, 2007
Journal of Semantics 2007 24(4):307-330; doi:10.1093/jos/ffm005
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The Processing Consequences of the Imperfective Paradox

Giosuè Baggio

F.C. Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Radboud University Nijmegen

Michiel Van Lambalgen

Department of Philosophy, University of Amsterdam

Correspondence: GIOSUÈ BAGGIO, F.C. Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Radboud University Nijmegen, P.O. Box 9101, NL-6500 HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands, e-mail: g.baggio{at}fcdonders.ru.nl

Correspondence: MICHIEL VAN LAMBALGEN, Department of Philosophy, University of Amsterdam, Nieuwe Doelenstraat 15, NL-1012 CP Amsterdam, The Netherlands, e-mail: M.vanLambalgen{at}uva.nl


  Abstract

In this paper we present a semantic analysis of the imperfective paradox based on the Event Calculus (van Lambalgen & Hamm 2004), a planning formalism characterizing a class of models which can be computed by connectionist networks. We report the results of a questionnaire that support the semantic theory and suggest that different aspectual classes of VPs in the progressive give rise to different entailment patterns. Further, a processing model is outlined, combining the semantic analysis with the psycholinguistic principle of immediacy in the framework of recurrent networks. The model is used to derive predictions concerning the electrophysiological correlates of the computations described by the Event Calculus.

Received for publication 29 August 2006. Revision received 20 December 2006. Accepted for publication 8 January 2007.


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