Abstract
This study is an exploration of the semantics and syntax of a large corpus of interpretations of anomalous sentences. The anomalies were lines of poetry taken from e. e. cummings and represented a range of combinations of violations of linguistic rules. According to predominant theory, anomalies are comprehended by reduction to literal grammatical paraphrases. As in earlier studies using anomalies, the present one found that the interpretations tend to be grammatically more well-formed than their source anomalies. However, semantic analysis of the interpretations revealed that anomalies are understood primarily by reliance on semantic creativity, world knowledge, and metaphor, contrary to the reduction theory.
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