A fundamental aspect of human cognition is the ability to parse our constantly unfolding experience into meaningful representations of dynamic events and to communicate about these events with others. How do we communicate about events we have experienced? And what consequences does the way we communicate about events have for the way we think about them? I will present recent work on the link between event conceptualization and language focusing on two core aspects of event representation: event participants and spatial-temporal boundaries of events. I will show that cognitive representation of events aligns with the way these aspects of events are encoded in language. I will also argue that linguistic choices also influence how we conceptualize events but only for the purpose of communication.