1997) as well as work by Stevenson, Crawley, and Kleinman (1994), and Pearson, Stevenson, and Poesio (2001).
there is evidence that with certain verbs, the normal preference for subjects to rank higher than their objects is reversed, although these preferences are modified by other factors such as order of mention, type of connective, and animacy (Stevenson, Crawley, and Kleinman 1994;Stevenson et al.