The treatment of verbal aspect in Russian grammar and its interaction with lexical semantics are controversial matters. We address these issues from a psycholinguistic perspective. We conducted an EEG study with 14 native Russian speakers processing 160 sentences in the unrestrictedly iterative meaning; the sentences were either correct or contained semantic, morpho-syntactic, or aspectual violations (e.g., Každyj vecer otec *zasnulpfv na divane. ‘Every evening the father *fell asleep on the sofa’). Processing the aspectual violation resulted in a P600, which is typical for processing morpho-syntactic violations and usually is interpreted as an index of difficulties in syntactic (re-)analysis, while an N400, which is typical for processing lexico-semantic violations, could not be observed. Our results show that Russian speakers must make more effort to analyze aspectually incorrect sentences compared with aspectually correct sentences. Processing aspectual violations in Russian clearly resembles processing of morpho-syntactic violations. This is in line with the interpretation of aspect as a typical grammatical category.

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Každyj den' turist *otdoxnul na pljaže。俄语迭代句中体格违规处理的事件相关电位研究

俄语语法中语言方面的处理及其与词汇语义的相互作用是有争议的问题。我们从心理语言学的角度来解决这些问题。我们对 14 位俄语母语人士进行了 EEG 研究，他们处理了 160 句无限制迭代意义的句子；这些句子要么是正确的，要么包含语义、形态句法或方面的违规（例如，Každyj vecer otec *zasnulpfv na divane。“每天晚上父亲 * 在沙发上睡着了”）。处理方面违规导致 P600，这是处理形态句法违规的典型代表，通常被解释为句法（重新）分析困难的指数，而 N400，这是处理词汇语义违规的典型代表，可以不被观察。我们的结果表明，与方面正确的句子相比，俄语使用者必须更加努力地分析方面不正确的句子。处理俄语中的方面违规显然类似于处理形态句法违规。这符合将aspect作为典型语法范畴的解释。