Mental simulation and language comprehension: The case of copredication

Empirical evidence suggests that perceptual-motor simulations are often constitutively involved in language comprehension. Call this “the simulation view of comprehension”. This article applies the to illuminate much-discussed phenomenon copredication, where a noun permits multiple predications which seem select different senses simultaneously. On proposed account, (in)felicitousness copredicational sentence is closely associated with perceptual user deploys comprehending sentence.