Eva Wittenberg

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List of John Benjamins publications for which Eva Wittenberg plays a role.

Articles

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Wittenberg, Eva and Ray Jackendoff 2018 Formalist modeling and psychological reality Epistemological issue with keynote article “A Formalist Perspective on Language Acquisition” by Charles Yang, pp. 787–791 | Commentary
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Wittenberg, Eva, Ray Jackendoff, Gina Kuperberg, Martin Paczynski, Jesse Snedeker and Heike Wiese 2014 The mental representation and processing of light verbs Structuring the Argument: Multidisciplinary research on verb argument structure, Bachrach, Asaf, Isabelle Roy and Linnaea Stockall (eds.), pp. 61–80 | Article
This article gives an overview of our ongoing research on the processing and representation of light verb constructions. Light verb constructions consist of a light verb, which is semantically bleached, and an event nominal, which identifies the kind of event. Together the noun and the verb… read more
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Wittenberg, Eva and Maria Mercedes Piñango 2011 Processing light verb constructions The Mental Lexicon 6:3, pp. 393–413 | Article
Henry gave Elsa a kiss give kiss give a kiss We test two approaches to light verb constructions: (1) joint predication in light verb constructions is stored as pre-specified, and their high frequency predicts less processing cost. (2) Joint predication in light verb… read more