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 structure-and 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.
