Event Representation in Language and Cognition [Paperback]

Examines new research into how the mind deals with the experience of events.Event Representation in Language and Cognition examines new research into how the mind deals with the experience of events. The book highlights the newly found evidence which indicates the imposition of boundary conditions on the structure and processing of events and how these are then interpreted by the mind.Event Representation in Language and Cognition examines new research into how the mind deals with the experience of events. The book highlights the newly found evidence which indicates the imposition of boundary conditions on the structure and processing of events and how these are then interpreted by the mind.Event Representation in Language and Cognition examines new research into how the mind deals with the experience of events. Empirical research into the cognitive processes involved when people view events and talk about them is still a young field. The chapters by leading experts draw on data from the description of events in spoken and signed languages, first and second language acquisition, co-speech gesture and eye movements during language production, and from non-linguistic categorization and other tasks. The book highlights newly found evidence for how perception, thought, and language constrain each other in the experience of events. It will be of particular interest to linguists, psychologists, and philosophers, as well as to anyone interested in the representation and processing of events.1. On representing events Eric Pederson and J?rgen Bohnemeyer; 2. Event representation in serial verb constructions Andrew Pawley; 3. The macro-event property: the segmentation of causal chains J?rgen Bohnemeyer, Nick Enfield, James Essegbey and Sotaro Kita; 4. Event representation, time event relations and clause structure: a cross linguistic study of English and German Mary Carroll and Christiane von Stutterheim; 5. Event representations in signed languages Asl1 ?zy?rek and Pamela Perlc