ABSTRACT
Several speakers at this conference have discussed how people scan linguistic material while they are reading. The next research question that we might ask is: What do people do with that material once they have read it? Part of the answer is that they form an internal representation of the information that was just read, and that is the topic of central concern here. How is semantic information internally represented; what do the representations look like; and how are those representations manipulated? In particular, I will discuss some research that has focused on the semantic structure of negation, examining how negatives are internally represented and manipulated.
