Anticipating the Damn Referent : How Comprehenders Rapidly Retrieve the Speaker's Attitude When Processing Negative Expressive Adjectives
Theoretical accounts of negative expressives such as damn have ascribed two main properties to this type of adjective, namely that they are typically speaker-oriented, and that they can be flexible with regard to their syntactic attachment. However, it is not clear what this means during online sentence processing. For example, is it effortful for comprehenders to derive the speaker's negative att