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Case, Word Order and Prominence: Interacting Cues in Language Production and Comprehension
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Case, Word Order and Prominence: Interacting Cues in Language Production and ComprehensionCase, Word Order and Prominence: Interacting Cues in Language Production and Comprehension

Language users have access to several sources of information during the build up of a meaningful construction. These include grammatical rules, situational knowledge, and general world knowledge. A central role in this process is played by the argument structure of verbs, which establishes the syntactic and semantic relationships between arguments.
 
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Tags: Language, knowledge, which, establishes, verbs, Comprehension, Order, Production
The Ethical Assassin
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The Ethical AssassinThe Ethical Assassin

Liss recycles familiar conventions—drug dealers, missing money, an innocent hero mixed up with bad guys—but salvages his novel from banality with a few quirky touches. In sticky south Florida of August 1985, Lem Altick, a 17-year-old door-to-door encyclopedia salesman, witnesses the murder of two potential customers in a mobile home. Fearing he'll be fingered for the crime—or worse, that he's next—Lem establishes a wary relationship with the likable killer, Melford Kean, who is either a violent psychopath or an animal rights vigilante fighting agribusiness.
 
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Tags: worse, establishes, relationship, likable, crime, Assassin, Ethical, fingered