{"pk":28858,"title":"Agency Drives Category Structure in Instrumental Events","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Thematic roles such as Agent and Instrument have a long-\nstanding place in theories of event representation. Nonetheless,\nthe structure of these categories has been difficult to determine.\nWe investigated how instrumental events, such as someone\nslicing bread with a knife, are categorized in English. Speakers\ndescribed a variety of typical and atypical instrumental events,\nand we determined the similarity structure of their descriptions\nusing correspondence analysis. We found that events where the\ninstrument is an extension of an intentional agent were most\nlikely to elicit similar language, highlighting the importance of\nagency in structuring instrumental categories.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"thematic roles; events; categorization; tools;\nlanguage production; English"}],"section":"Papers with Poster Presentations","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1h47d8x3","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Lilia","middle_name":"","last_name":"Rissman","name_suffix":"","institution":"Radboud University","department":""},{"first_name":"Asifa","middle_name":"","last_name":"Majid","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of York","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2019-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/28858/galley/18729/download/"}]}