Elaine J. Francis

List of John Benjamins publications in which Elaine J. Francis is involved.

Article

Francis, Elaine J. 2011 Constraining mismatch in grammar and in sentence comprehension: The role of default correspondences Pragmatics and Autolexical Grammar: In honor of Jerry Sadock, Yuasa, Etsuyo, Tista Bagchi and Katharine Beals (eds.), pp. 279–298 | Article

This chapter presents psycholinguistic evidence for “default correspondences” – canonical mappings between semantic roles and constituent ordering – in the comprehension of two types of noun phrase mismatch: possessive free relatives and quantificational nouns. Experiments showed that possessive… read more