Cognitive Science Perspectives on Verb Representation and ProcessingVerbs play an important role in how events, states and other happenings are mentally represented and how they are expressed in natural language. Besides their central role in linguistics, verbs have long been prominent topics of research in analytic philosophymostly on the nature of events and predicate argument structureand a topic of empirical investigation in psycholinguistics, mostly on argument structure and its role in sentence comprehension.