Τhematic roles in dementia: the case of psychological verbs
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https://doi.org/10.36505/ExLing-2021/12/0068/000541Keywords:
thematic roles, psychological verbs, Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI), Alzheimer’s disease (AD), sentence-picture matchingAbstract
This study investigates the difficulty of people with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI), mild and moderate Alzheimer’s disease (AD) in the production and comprehension of psychological verbs, as thematic realization may involve both the canonical and non-canonical realization of arguments. More specifically, we aim to examine whether there is a deficit in the mapping of syntactic and semantic representations in psych-predicates regarding Greek-speaking individuals with MCI and AD, and whether the linguistic abilities associated with θ-role assignment decrease as the disease progresses. Moreover, given the decline of cognitive abilities in people with MCI and AD, we explore the effects of components of memory (Semantic, Episodic, and Working Memory) on the assignment of thematic roles in constructions with psychological verbs.
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