R.G. de Almeida, C. Manouilidou (Eds.

Cognitive Science Perspectives on Verb Representation and

Processing
Provides a valuable contributiontowards narrowing the gap
between cognitive psychology and linguistics
Focuses on verbs as the key element of syntactical and semantic
representation of events
Examines both bilingual and monolingual speakers

2015, I, 392 p. 46 illus., 38 illus. in color.

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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 predicate-argument structureand a topic of
empirical investigation in psycholinguistics, mostly on argument structure and its role in
sentence comprehension. More recently, the representation of verb meaning has been
gaining momentum as a topic of research in other cognitive science branches, notably
neuroscience and the psychology of concepts. The present volume is an expression of this
recent surge in the investigation of verb structure and meaning from the interdisciplinary
perspective of cognitive science, with up-to-date contributions by theoretical linguists,
philosophers, psycholinguists and neuroscientists. The volume presents new theoretical
and empirical studies on how verb structure and verb meaning are represented, how they
are processed during language comprehension, how they are acquired, and how they
are neurologically implemented. Cognitive Science Perspectives on Verb Representation
and Processing is a reflection of the recent collaboration between the disciplines that
constitute cognitive science, bringing new empirical data and theoretical insights on a key
element of natural language and conceptualization.

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