Writing process data of 90 healthy elderly (50 - 90 years) were obtained. Each of them completed a typed sentence production task that consisted of 40 trials. Time on task, production time, and pause times before sentences, between words and within words were logged with a keystroke logging tool (ScriptLog). The data were used to examine the influences of normal ageing and verb transitivity on sentence production. The underlying aim was to provide a foundation for further research on sentence production in Alzheimer's disease (AD). This dataset contains the data that remained after ...