Concepts of Events. Common sense intuition distinguishes between events and regular objects; events happen, after all, and objects don't.

This symposium aims to illuminate the psychological notion of 'event' from the perspective of event semantics, connecting posits in formal semantics to ...

Linguists say that sentences describe events, while nouns describe objects. Psychologists describe the principles of event perception, and philosophers debate ...

Author(s): Wellwood, Alexis; Kuhn, Jeremy; Schlenker, Philippe; Geraci, Carlo; Strickland, Brent; Hespos, Susan; Rips, Lance; Husband, E. Matthew; Williams, ...

Event Semantics (ES) says that clauses in natural languages are descriptions of events. Why believe this? The answer cannot be that we use clauses to talk ...

Semantic cognition refers to the appropriate use of acquired knowledge about the world. This requires representation of knowledge as well as control ...

This series takes the current thinking on topics in linguistics from the theoretical level to validation through empirical and experimental research.

Our results indicate that a distributed neural network represents the meaning of event sentences in a way that is robust to changes in their structure and form.

Semantic knowledge, of the meanings of words and properties of objects, shapes our understanding of the world and guides our behaviour.

This consensus paper addresses a series of carefully selected questions that aim at determining when and how rather than whether motor and perceptual processes ...