Event schemas revisited – a few comments on Radden and Dirven (2007)

The aim of the paper is to discuss a few points of Radden & Dirven’s (2007) proposal regarding the main event schemas and their formal representations in the grammar of Modern English. It is argued that some of R&D’s proposals, such as the inventory of participant roles and the ordering of the “worlds” presented in their monograph should be modified while others require more serious revisions and/or extensions. In particular, it is suggested that schemas representing bodily and complex cognitive states should be added to the Psychological World and the number of the worlds should be extended to include the Social World with its own set of event schemas based on the experience of verbal communication.