Cognitive Science Perspectives on Verb Representation and Processing

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: de Almeida, Roberto G. (Editor), Manouilidou, Christina (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Subjects: Psychology.; Psycholinguistics.; Neuropsychology.; Cognitive psychology.; Cognitive Psychology.

Verbs play an important role in how events, states and other “happenings” are mentally represented and how they are expressed in natural language. Besides their central role in linguistics, verbs have long been prominent topics of research in analytic philosophy—mostly on the nature of events and pr...