Decomposing Parts of Speech: Cerebral Encoding of Semantic and Grammatical Dimensions and Their Combinational Structure
Conventional part-of-speech (PoS) labels such as nouns, verbs and adjectives conflate lexical-semantic roots, grammatical functions, and their combinations, making it unclear whether neural sensitivity to PoS reflects either dimension or the way they are combined. We adopted Croft’s typological framework to decompose m...