**Poster A65** -------------- Stanley Donahoo, Valeria Pfeifer, and Vicky Tzuyin Lai Thank you for visiting! Please check out the short presentation and feel free to send questions or comments via the OSF comments button (in the top right corner), or directly to stanleydonahoo@email.arizona.edu. ---------- Short Abstract: A unique property of expressive adjectives is their non-localness; they can be flexibly applied to their adjacent noun locally, or to another constituent later in the sentence. We use ERPs to test the time course of the combinatorial processing of swear-noun composition (e.g. *The damn dog* vs. *black dog* vs. *flerg dog peed on the couch*). We predicted differential ERP profiles, comparatively. Swears elicited a larger positivity than non-swears, associated with a pragmatic tabooness effect. When combined with a noun, swears are not necessarily bound to conceptual integration, unlike other adjectives. Language parsers wait and see what is being damned.