Event Representation in Language and CognitionJürgen Bohnemeyer, Eric Pederson 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. |
Contents
| 1 | |
Event representation in serial verb constructions | 17 |
1 | 31 |
13 | 32 |
The segmentation of causal chains | 43 |
2 | 50 |
3 | 62 |
Event representation time event relations and clause | 68 |
5 | 106 |
Linguistic and nonlinguistic categorization of complex | 108 |
3 | 124 |
Developmental consequences | 134 |
1 | 135 |
Visual encoding of coherent and noncoherent scenes | 189 |
Talking about events | 216 |
How omissions cause events | 228 |
Common terms and phrases
adpositions Bohnemeyer Cambridge causal chains causation by omission caused causee character perspective classifier predicates clip cognitive Cognitive Linguistics coherent complex conceptual contrast crosslinguistic deixis dependent clause depicted describe descriptions double prevention Dutch dynamic encoding English speakers entity classifiers event predicate event representation event segmentation example Experiment expressions eye movements figure object fixations force theory framing languages French German German Sign Language gesture goal grammatical Hindi Japanese Kalam language-specific lexical predicates light verb linguistic linguistic typology macro-event main clause motion events narrative SVCs observer perspective outcome theories participants patterns patterns Words perception placement events placement verbs present process theories reference relation composition satellite-framed satellite-framed languages scenes semantic sequence serial verb serial verb constructions sign languages signers Slobin Spanish specific speech stimuli structure Stutterheim sub-events syntactic temporal transitive verb Turkish types typology Tzeltal University Press vector verb-framed languages visual