The Processing of Events -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- List of tables -- List of figures -- Abbreviations and symbols -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Events in cognitive psychology and linguistics -- 2.1. Events from a psychological perspective -- 2.1.1 Experiments on event perception and reporting -- Perception systems used in event perception -- 2.1.2 The importance of planning in narrating and remembering events -- 2.1.3 A brief summary -- 2.2. Events in linguistics -- 2.2.1 A calculus of events (Hamm & van Lambalgen (2005)) -- Basic ontology -- Primitive predicates -- Axioms of the Event Calculus -- Scenarios -- 2.2.2 The representation of Aktionsart -- States (eventualities of type ) -- Activities (eventualities of type ) -- Accomplishments (eventualities of type ) -- Semelfactives (eventualities of type ) -- Achievements (eventualities of type ) -- 2.2.3 The classification of Aktionsart -- 2.2.4 The composition of Aktionsart -- 2.2.5 Hierarchical event structures -- 2.2.6 A glimpse at the computational machinery -- 2.3. Coercion -- 2.3.1 Semantic theories on coercion -- Complement coercion and the generative lexicon -- Aspectual coercion - The transition network -- 2.3.2 Operator-based accounts -- Introducing a semantic operator -- Operators that are also realized in syntax -- 2.3.3 Underspecification -- Pulman's approach -- Dölling's approach -- Egg's approach -- 2.3.4 Planning accounts -- Planning and affordances - Steedman's approach -- Coercion in EC -- 2.3.5 A short summary -- 2.3.6 Psycholinguistic studies on coercion -- 2.3.7 Studies on complement coercion -- Underlying processes -- 2.3.8 Studies on aspectual coercion -- Piñango, et al. (1999) -- Todorova, et al. (2000) -- Pickering, et al. (2006) -- Brennan & Pylkkänen (2008 a).

A short summary -- 2.4. Summary and conclusions -- Hypotheses and predictions -- 3.1. A general model of aspectual interpretation -- 3.1.1 What factors guide lexical aspectual access? -- 3.1.2 What kinds of repair processes are there? -- 3.1.3 What is the processing domain for aspectual coercion? -- 3.1.4 How is semantic reanalysis carried out in the brain? -- Evoked activity in the EEG: ERPs -- Predictions based on the different coercion accounts -- 3.2. Semantic derivations for different kinds of coercion -- 3.2.1 Subtractive coercion -- Derivation I: A stop-event cancels finish -- Derivation II: Revision and recomputation -- 3.2.2 Absract type shift -- Computing an iterative reading I: Semelfactive -> activity -- Computing an iterative reading II: Accomplishment -> activity -- 3.2.3 Additive coercion -- 3.3. Coercion at the offline/online-boundary: Experiment 1 -- 3.3.1 Method -- Materials -- Predictions -- Participants -- Procedure -- Data analysis -- 3.3.2 Results -- 3.3.3 Discussion -- 3.4. Summary and conclusion -- The access to lexical aspectual information -- 4.1. Ambiguity resolution in the aspectual domain -- 4.2. Factors that play a role in syntax -- 4.2.1 Frequency information in syntactic disambiguation -- 4.2.2 Context information in syntactic disambiguation -- 4.3. Applying frequency and context to aspectual ambiguity -- 4.3.1 The probabilistic parsing hypothesis -- 4.3.2 The lazy parsing hypothesis -- 4.3.3 The aspectual underspecification hypothesis -- 4.3.4 A short summary -- 4.4. The role of lexical frequency information: Experiment 2 -- 4.5. Determining lexical frequencies: A corpus study -- 4.5.1 Method -- 4.5.2 Results and discussion -- 4.6. Frequency information: Evidence from reading times -- 4.6.1 Method -- Materials -- Participants -- Procedure -- Data analysis -- 4.6.2 Results -- End of sentence judgments -- Reading times.

4.6.3 Discussion -- 4.7. The role of context information: Experiment 3 -- 4.7.1 Methods -- Materials -- Participants -- Procedure -- 4.7.2 Results -- Sensicality judgments -- Reading times -- 4.7.3 Discussion -- 4.8. General discussion and conclusions -- Processing different types of coercion -- 5.1. Additive coercion: Experiment 4a -- 5.1.1 The aspectual enrichment hypothesis (AEH) -- 5.1.2 Method -- Materials -- Participants -- Procedure -- Data analysis -- 5.1.3 Results -- "Makes sense" judgements -- Reading times -- 5.1.4 Discussion -- 5.2. Subtractive coercion: Experiment 5 -- 5.2.1 Method -- Materials -- Participants -- Procedure and statistical analysis -- 5.2.2 Results -- Judgments -- Reading times -- 5.2.3 Discussion -- Two alternative ways to achieve subtractive coercion -- 5.3. Abstract type shift: Experiment 6 -- 5.3.1 Natural language has flexible semantic types -- 5.3.2 Abstract type shift - Difficult to perform? -- 5.3.3 The abstract type shift hypothesis (ATSH) -- 5.3.4 Method -- Materials -- Pretests -- Participants -- Procedure and data analysis -- 5.3.5 Results -- Question answering data -- Reading times -- 5.3.6 Discussion -- 5.4. General discussion and conclusions -- The processing domain of Aktionsart -- 6.1. The increment size in aspectual processing -- 6.1.1 Can the existing studies tell us anything about the domain size? -- 6.1.2 Pretesting the grammaticality of the word order variants -- Method and results -- 6.2. What do readers predict? A production experiment (Exp. 7) -- 6.2.1 Method -- Materials -- Procedure -- Participants -- Data analysis -- 6.2.2 Results -- Quantitative analysis -- Qualitative analysis -- 6.2.3 Discussion -- 6.3. The bare verb as processing domain: Experiment 4b -- 6.3.1 Method -- 6.3.2 Results -- 6.3.3 Discussion -- 6.4. The VP as processing domain: Experiment 8 -- 6.4.1 Method.

Materials and procedure -- Participants -- 6.4.2 Results -- Judgments -- Reading times -- 6.4.3 Discussion -- 6.5. Summary and conclusions -- The processing of temporality in the brain -- 7.1. EEG research in psycholinguistics -- 7.1.1 Measuring event-related brain potentials -- 7.1.2 Neurolinguistic models of sentence comprehension -- 7.2. Relevant brain studies -- 7.2.1 Brain studies on temporality in language -- 7.2.2 Brain studies on complement coercion -- 7.3. An EEG study on the processing of aktionsart and tense (Experiment 9) -- 7.3.1 Theoretical accounts of aspectual coercion -- 7.3.2 Method -- 7.3.3 Results -- 7.3.4 Discussion -- 7.4. Summary and conclusions -- 7.4.1 A question for future research -- The specified processing model of aspectual reanalysis -- 8.1. A replication of Experiments 5 and 6: Experiment 10a/b -- 8.1.1 Materials -- 8.1.2 Pretesting the readings -- Methods -- Results and discussion -- 8.2. Iterative readings: Experiment 10a and b -- 8.2.1 Methods -- Participants -- 8.2.2 Results -- Sensicality judgments -- Reading times -- 8.2.3 Discussion -- Subtractive coercion -- Iterative semelfactives -- 8.3. Summary and conclusions -- Summary and conclusions -- 9.1. Relating the findings to formal semantic accounts of aspectual reinterpretation -- 9.1.1 Operator-based accounts -- 9.1.2 Underspecification accounts -- Psycholinguistic underspecification -- Semantic underspecification -- 9.1.3 Planning accounts -- 9.2. Predictions for psycholinguistic experiments -- 9.3. Relating the findings to psycholinguistic studies on coercion -- 9.3.1 Studies on aspectual coercion -- 9.3.2 Studies on complement coercion -- 9.4. Relating the findings to models of sentence processing -- 9.4.1 Towards an immediacy model of semantic processing -- 9.5. Open questions -- 9.5.1 Questions for further research.

9.5.2 Issues in modeling aspectual processing -- References -- The semantics of logic programming and its implementation by recurrent neural nets -- A.1. Propositional logic programming -- A.2. The construction of minimal models using neural nets -- Discourse representation theory (DRT) -- B.1. Processing a sample discourse -- Target sentences in experiment 1 -- Lexical frequencies of verbs in Experiment 2 -- Target sentences in Experiment 2 -- Discourses in Experiment 3 -- Target sentences in Experiment 4 (4a and 4b) -- Target sentences in Experiment 5 -- Target sentences in Experiment 6 -- Target sentences in Experiment 8 -- Target sentences in Experiment 9 -- Normed fillers -- Target sentences in Experiment 10 a -- Target sentences in experiment 10 b -- Index -- The series Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today.