The generation of an utterance begins with event apprehension and continues with sequential linguistic
encoding of all message elements [2]. The timecourse of formulation, however, is relatively flexible and varies
with the ease of structural encoding [3]. While previous work has shown that syntactic structure may be primed
independently of thematic roles across sentences [1], here we tested whether exposure to conceptually similar
events interacts with structural processes to facilitate the mapping of a message onto a sentence.