This work explores the role of verb information during online processing of
spoken language. Currently, the field already acknowledges a large influence
of verb information in the prediction of structure during language comprehension,
but focuses on information used to make predictions about immediately
upcoming, syntactically licensed constituents, leaving questions about
how (and if) verb information is used to make predictions about other upcoming
elements of the sentence. Instruments are unique in that they have a
close semantic relation with verbs while at the same time, they maintain...