A cognitive psychological model of linguistic intuitions: Polysemy and predicate order effects in copredication sentences

The paper was boring and long: A reply to Michel and Löhr’s theory of predicate ordering in copredication

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In a recent publication, Michel and Löhr (2024) propose a predictive processing (PP) theory of copredication. They do so in an attempt to account for previously documented predicate ordering effects, whereby copredication acceptability is significantly impacted by the order of predicates.

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“…Copredication remains highly relevant to major debates in linguistics and philosophy, since it cuts to the core of how the lexicon is formatted, and how distinct lexico-semantic representations relate to one another. Michel and Löhr (2024) (henceforth, M&L) propose a model of copredication acceptability dynamics which is driven by context-sensitive expectations and predications of upcoming linguistic material. I will briefly outline in this article some major obstacles for M&L, in addition to clear cases of misrepresentation of my published work (Murphy 2021a(Murphy , 2021b.…”