McCarthy R, Warrington E K
Neuropsychologia. 1985;23(6):709-27. doi: 10.1016/0028-3932(85)90079-x.
We report our investigations of a severely agrammatic patient (ROX). A striking feature of ROX's spontaneous speech was his extremely abnormal verb phrase constructions. We established that ROX was impaired both in the retrieval and in the comprehension of action names and verbs which contrasted with his generally excellent comprehension and retrieval of nouns. First we describe his impaired performance on certain sentence comprehension tests. Secondly we document his deficits in naming common actions and our attempt to remedy his impairment. Thirdly we investigate his comprehension of semantically and thematically related nouns and verbs. ROX's agrammatism is discussed from the perspective of category specificity. It is argued that his semantic representation of verbs is impaired, and that this lexical deficit may well be at the core of this type of agrammatism.
我们报告了对一名严重语法缺失患者（ROX）的研究情况。ROX的自发言语的一个显著特征是其极其异常的动词短语结构。我们确定，ROX在动作名称和动词的提取及理解方面存在障碍，这与他总体上对名词的出色理解和提取形成对比。首先，我们描述他在某些句子理解测试中的受损表现。其次，我们记录他在命名常见动作方面的缺陷以及我们尝试纠正其障碍的过程。第三，我们研究他对语义和主题相关的名词及动词的理解。我们从类别特异性的角度讨论了ROX的语法缺失现象。有人认为，他对动词的语义表征受损，而这种词汇缺陷很可能是这类语法缺失的核心所在。
