Proceedings of the 6 th International Conference on Generative Approaches to the Lexicon Generative Lexicon and Distributional Semantics

In this brief note, I explore the cognitive mechanisms involved in interpreting the meanings of events, as conveyed through language. Specifically, I examine the notion of event simulation in the construction of linguistic meaning. Simulations are a special class of minimal models, generated from linguistic input, under a number of agentoriented cognitive constraints. An integral part of this model is a dynamic representation of processes and events, such as the Dynamic Event Structure presented here. I show how simulations are composed of entity and event habitats, which are contextualization functions, acting to embed a proposition into a minimal model.