ICPS

2019 International Convention of Psychological Science · 2019

Thematic Roles and Prototypicality in Dutch and German

Paris, France · March 2019

Posters · Other

  • Lilia Rissman
    Radboud University
  • Asifa Majid
    University of York

Abstract

Thematic roles (Agent, Patient, etc.) are often analyzed in terms of prototypes, yet the details of these representations are not well understood. We focused on the role Instrument, and hypothesized that the prototypical Instrument is a tool. Experimental evidence from Dutch and German was only partially compatible with this hypothesis.

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