Events have representation in different modalities.
Anthropology has long been concerned with cultural specific vs. cultural universal depictions and understandings of different event types. Philosophy debates the ontological character of events and puzzles over event recognition, which must ultimately relate internal representations to external characteristics of events. How or why this is so is largely uncharted. For example, much paper has been used hypothesizing an isomorphic relationship between the syntactic structure of linguistic depictions of events and some underlying conceptual structure of these events. However, there has been a dearth of solid empirical evidence to support this.