Cognitive Science Perspectives on Verb Representation and Processing

Abstract

Part 1: Foundations.- Chapter 1: The study of verbs in Cognitive Science - Roberto G. de Almeida (Concordia University) & Christina Manouilidou (University of Patras).- Part 2: Structure and Composition.- Chapter 2: Lexicalizing and combining - Paul Pietroski (University of Maryland).- Chapter 3: Optional complements of English verbs and adjectives - Brendan Gillon (McGill University).- Chapter 4: The representation and processing of participant role information - Gail Mauner (University at Buffalo).- Part 3: Events: Aspect, and Telicity.- Chapter 5: Force dynamics and directional change in event lexicalization and argument realization - William Croft (University of New Mexico).- Chapter 6: Neural processing of verbal event structure: temporal and functional dissociation between telic and atelic verbs - Evgenia Malaia, Javier Gonzalez-Castillo, Christine Weber-Fox, Thomas M. Talavage, & Ronnie B. Wilbur, (Purdue University).- Chapter 7: Argument structure and time reference in agrammatic aphasia - Roelien Bastiaanse (University of Groningen) & Artem Platonov (Radboud University Nijmegen).- Chapter 8: Building aspectual interpretations online - E. Matthew Husband (University of Oxford), Linnaea Stockall (Queen Mary University of London).- Part 4: Meaning and Structure: Representation and Processing.- Chapter 9: Visual and motor features of the meanings of action verbs: a cognitive neuroscience perspective - David Kemmerer (Purdue University).- Chapter 10: Which event properties matter for which cognitive task? - Jean-Pierre Koenig, Doug Roland, Hohg-Oak Yun, & Gail Mauner (University at Buffalo).- Chapter 11: Verb representation and thinking-for-speaking effects in Spanish-English bilinguals - Vicky T. Lai (University of South Carolina and Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics) & Bhuvana Narasimhan (University of Colorado, Boulder).- Part 5: Acquiring Verbs.- Chapter 12: Argument structure: Relationships between theory and acquisition - Sudha Arunachalam (Boston University).- Chapter 13: The beginning of morphological learning: Evidence from verb morpheme processing in preverbal infants - Alexandra Marquis (Universite de Montreal) & Rushen Shi (Universite du Quebec a Montreal).