{"pk":28585,"title":"Event Participants and Verbal Semantics:\nNon-Discrete Structure in English, Spanish and Mandarin","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Verbs are widely analyzed as functions taking a discrete\nnumber of arguments (e.g., drink has two arguments but give\nhas three). Recent studies, however, suggest that English verbs\nencode Instruments as more or less salient (e.g., the Instrument\nis more salient for slice, less salient for eat). We conducted a\njudgment task with adult speakers of Spanish and Mandarin\nand found that verbs in these languages also encode\nInstruments as having a relative degree of salience, inconsistent\nwith the discrete model of participant encoding.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"verbal semantics; argument structure;\nexperimental semantics; thematic roles; event representation"}],"section":"Papers with Oral Presentations","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3tf4x6jp","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Lilia","middle_name":"","last_name":"Rissman","name_suffix":"","institution":"Radboud University","department":""},{"first_name":"Kyle","middle_name":"","last_name":"Rawlins","name_suffix":"","institution":"Johns Hopkins University","department":""},{"first_name":"Barbara","middle_name":"","last_name":"Landau","name_suffix":"","institution":"Johns Hopkins University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2019-01-01T13:00:00-05:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/28585/galley/18456/download/"}]}