Table 1.

The first three rows indicate functional differences between root and template levels of verb meaning. The bottom row indicates the hypothesized neuroanatomical correlates of the motor specifications made at each level of verb meaning.

	Roots	Templates
Semantic contrasts	Distinguish between verbs within the same class	Distinguish between entire verb classes
Degree of schematicity	Low	High
Grammatical relevance	Low	High
Hypothesized neural correlates of motor specifications	Somatotopically organized primary motor and/or premotor cortices	Brodmann area 44