Folli Raffaella, Harley Heidi
School of Communication, University of Ulster, Newtownabbey, Co. Antrim, BT37 0QB.
Trends Cogn Sci. 2006 Mar;10(3):91-2. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2006.01.002. Epub 2006 Feb 7.
Despite the variety of verb meanings, linguistic research on their syntax and semantics has shown that they can be categorized into a finite and surprisingly small number of event types. More recently, research in the psycholinguistics of language acquisition and processing has emphasized the relevance of event type. The wider implication of these findings is that the conceptual fluidity of verbal concepts is confined by the fundamental structures of mental grammar, shedding light on this important interface between cognition and syntactic organization.
尽管动词含义多种多样，但关于其句法和语义的语言学研究表明，它们可以被归类为数量有限且惊人地少的事件类型。最近，语言习得与处理的心理语言学研究强调了事件类型的相关性。这些发现更广泛的含义是，动词概念的概念流动性受到心理语法基本结构的限制，这为认知与句法组织之间的这一重要接口提供了启示。
