Description: Preface List of Abbreviations and Glosses 1. The Garden Path Phenomenon 1.0. The Problem 1.1. Grammar and Parser 1.2. Local and Global Ambiguity 1.3. Problematic and Unproblematic Ambiguity 1.4. Deep and Surface Factors in Processing Breakdown 1.5. Theta Attachment 1.6. The Theta Reanalysis Constraint 2. Performance-Based Models of Human Natural Language Processing 2.0. Perceptual Approaches 2.0.1. The Canonical Sentoid Strategy 2.0.2. Kimball's Seven Surface Principles 2.0.3. The Sausage Machine 2.0.4. Steal-NP 2.1. Computational Approaches 2.1.1. Augmented Transition Networks 2.1.2. Deterministic Parsing and Look-Ahead 2.1.3. Deterministic Parsing and Minimal Commitment 2.2. Lexical Approaches 2.2.1. Lexical Functional Grammar 2.3. Semantic Approaches 2.3.1. Interpretive Islands 2.3.2. Semantic Reanalysis Strategies 2.4. Summary 3. Grammatical Theory of Processing 3.0. Starting Assumptions 3.0.1. An Unambiguous Example 3.1. Object-Subject Ambiguity 3.1.1. Prepositional Object versus Clausal Subject 3.1.2. Verbal Complement versus Clausal Subject 3.2. Complement Clause-Relative Clause Ambiguity 3.3. Matrix Clause-Relative NP Ambiguity 3.3.1. Canonical Garden Path Effects 3.3.2. Canonical Garden Paths Avoided 4. The On-Line Locality Constraint 4.0. Ditransitive Constraint 4.0.1. A False Prediction 4.0.2. From the TRC to the On-Line Locality Constraint 4.0.3. (Re)Establishing the OLLC 4.0.4. Ditransitives Redux 4.1. Lexical Ambiguity 4.1.1. Intracategorial Ambiguity 4.1.2. Structural Ramifications of Lexical Ambiguity 4.1.3. Structural Constancy and Multi-Element Chains 5. Generalized Theta Attachment 5.0. Beyond the Theta Criterion 5.0.1. Eliminating Role Content 5.1. Adjunct Attachment 5.1.1. The Failure of Minimal Attachment 5.1.2. Quasi-Arguments 5.2. Cross-Linguistic Predictions 5.2.1. Mandarin 5.2.2. Hebrew 5.2.3. German 5.2.4. Japanese 5.2.5. Korean 5.3. Conclusions Notes References Index of Names General Index

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