Event Representation (22 entries)
The Event Representation project explores event packaging across languages and in language acquisition.
(10 entries)
Story Book Stimulus for The Elicitation of External Possessor Constructions and Dative Constructions (“The Circle of Dirt”)
How involved in an event is a person that possesses one of the event participants? Some languages can treat such “external possessors” as very closely involved, even marking them on… More →
Motionland Films (v. 2): Referential Communication Task with Motionland Stimulus
How do languages express ideas of movement, and how do they package different components of moving, such as manner and path? This task supports detailed investigation of motion descriptions. The… More →
Caused Positions
What kinds of resources do languages have for describing location and position? For some languages, verbs have an important role to play in describing different kinds of situations (e.g., whether… More →
Staged Events
The term “event” is a controversial concept, and the “same” activity or situation can be linguistically encoded in many different ways. The aim of this task is to explore features… More →
Event Triads
Judgments we make about how similar or different events are to each other can reveal the features we find useful in classifying the world. This task is designed to investigate… More →
The ECOM Clips: A Stimulus for The Linguistic Coding of Event Complexity
How do we decide where events begin and end? In some languages it makes sense to say something like Dan broke the plate, but in other languages it is necessary… More →
A Questionnaire on Event Integration
How do we decide where events begin and end? Like the ECOM clips, this questionnaire is designed to investigate how a language divides and/or integrates complex scenarios into sub-events and… More →
A Questionnaire On: Motion Lexicalisation and Motion Description
How do languages express ideas of movement, and how do they package features that can be part of motion, such as path and cause? This questionnaire is used to gain… More →
Cut and Break Clips
How do different languages treat a particular semantic domain? It has already been established that languages have widely varied words for talking about “cutting” and “breaking” things: for example, English… More →
Event Representation and Event Complexity: General Introduction
How do we decide where events begin and end? In some languages it makes sense to say something like Dan broke the plate, but in other languages it is necessary… More →