Verbalization of event-concepts

The language-mind interaction as a subject of cognitive linguistics, which examines the structure of knowledge in correlation with their verbalization, is currently a topical problem, which opens possibilities for a comprehensive study of language as a psychological and social phenomenon. The work is devoted to the specifics of the language structure of event-concepts: the article considers the problems and principles of cognitive research, which allow to study the mental representations as the format of the knowledge based on linguistic data, besides the author makes an attempt to identify the basic meaning nodes of the event-concept, connected with the categorical division of the world by a person. The structure of the proposition contains information about the components of the event-concept; their separation is based not only on the lexical meaning of the corresponding words, but also on the pragmatic aspect of the whole proposition. The novelty of the study is in the correlation of the data of linguistics and psychology of the problem of mental representations in general. This work is theoretical and makes some contribution to the development of the methodology of cognitive research.