ABSTRACT
This chapter describes some of the complexities involved in events, and an approach based on cognitive linguistics for analyzing the complexity. As in most other work in cognitive linguistics, the analyses here are based on the semantic interpretation by the analysts of invented or naturally occurring sentences, using a family of theoretical constructs whose lineage can be traced back to cognitive psychology or philosophy. The chapter focuses on how relevant the cognitive linguistic research is to psychological theories, and how cognitive linguistic analyses can be tested in experimental psychological paradigms. In general, a noncausal stative relation can be expressed in different ways; the force-dynamic model of subject-object assignment makes no a priori prediction, and across languages, one finds variation. The chapter examines the meanings of verbs in constructions to establish semantic classes of events and conceptual meanings of constructions.
