Encoding Motion Events In Mandarin Chinese

Author : Jingxia Lin
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027262974

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Encoding Motion Events in Mandarin Chinese by Jingxia Lin Pdf

This book is a corpus-based description and discussion of how Modern Mandarin Chinese encodes motion events, with a focus on how the distribution of verbal motion morphemes is closely associated with the meanings they lexicalize. The book is not only the first work that proposes a finer-grained classification and diagnostics of Chinese motion morphemes from the perspective of scale structure, but also the first to more comprehensively account for the ordering of Chinese motion morphemes. The findings of this study will not only enrich the literature on motion events, but more importantly, further our understanding of the nature of motion events and the way motion events are conceived and represented in the Chinese language. The major proposals and the cognitive functional approach of this work will also shed light on studies beyond motion. The book will be a valuable resource for scholars interested in motion events, syntax-semantic interface, and typology.

Author : Jingxia Lin
Publisher : Stanford University
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:jm379cs8490

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The Encoding of Motion Events in Chinese by Jingxia Lin Pdf

This dissertation investigates the relative order of verbal morphemes that express motion in Chinese motion constructions consisting of multiple motion morphemes, e.g., the order of pao 'run' and jin 'enter' in the construction pao-jin fangjian run-enter room 'run into the room'. It argues that the order is predictable. Drawing on recent work on "scale structure", it divides Chinese motion morphemes into four types according to the type of scale each lexicalizes. Then it proposes a Motion Morpheme Hierarchy formed of these four types of motion morpheme that can be used to predict the order of motion morphemes. The hierarchy is supported by two extensive studies of multi-morpheme motion constructions using corpora of recent Chinese novels. In addition, the dissertation proposes a More Specific Constraint that explains why the Motion Morpheme Hierarchy emerges. The results of this study provides new insight into the distribution of motion morphemes in Chinese motion constructions and a more fine-grained analysis of the semantic relationships between the morphemes in these constructions; thus, it contributes to an increased understanding of how motion events are expressed in Chinese. The findings of this study may also illuminate the distribution of motion verbs in other languages, as well as constructions in domains other than motion.

Author : Jingxia Lin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:747192930

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The Encoding of Motion Events in Chinese by Jingxia Lin Pdf

This dissertation investigates the relative order of verbal morphemes that express motion in Chinese motion constructions consisting of multiple motion morphemes, e.g., the order of pao 'run' and jin 'enter' in the construction pao-jin fangjian run-enter room 'run into the room'. It argues that the order is predictable. Drawing on recent work on "scale structure", it divides Chinese motion morphemes into four types according to the type of scale each lexicalizes. Then it proposes a Motion Morpheme Hierarchy formed of these four types of motion morpheme that can be used to predict the order of motion morphemes. The hierarchy is supported by two extensive studies of multi-morpheme motion constructions using corpora of recent Chinese novels. In addition, the dissertation proposes a More Specific Constraint that explains why the Motion Morpheme Hierarchy emerges. The results of this study provides new insight into the distribution of motion morphemes in Chinese motion constructions and a more fine-grained analysis of the semantic relationships between the morphemes in these constructions; thus, it contributes to an increased understanding of how motion events are expressed in Chinese. The findings of this study may also illuminate the distribution of motion verbs in other languages, as well as constructions in domains other than motion.

Author : Juliana Goschler,Anatol Stefanowitsch
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027270948

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Variation and Change in the Encoding of Motion Events by Juliana Goschler,Anatol Stefanowitsch Pdf

The linguistic typology of motion event encoding is one of the central topics in Cognitive Linguistics. A vast body of typological, contrastive, and psycholinguistic research has shown the potential, but also the limitations of the original distinction between verb-framed and satellite-framed languages. This volume contains ten original papers focusing specifically on the variation and change of motion event encoding in individual languages and language families. The authors show that some of the central claims about motion event encoding need careful re-examination and reformulation and that individual languages and language families are more variable across space and time than even a refined typology could neatly capture at this time. The volume thus contributes to a more detailed and fine-grained foundation for the investigation of conceptual causes and consequences of different motion-event encoding strategies.

Author : Chengzhi Chu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9811319928

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Motion in Chinese by Chengzhi Chu Pdf

Motion is one of the most basic human experiences, and it provides an important window for looking into human cognition and language. Within the paradigm of cognitive semantics, this book presents a comprehensive study of the conceptualization and linguistic representation of motion in Mandarin Chinese. It focuses on the correlation between the ways in which Mandarin speakers conceptualize motion events and the ways in which they render them and carefully considers the typological properties. In addition to deepening our understanding of motion cognition and expressions, this study also affords insights for L2 learning and teaching of motion in Chinese.

Author : Laure Sarda,Benjamin Fagard
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027257819

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Neglected Aspects of Motion-Event Description by Laure Sarda,Benjamin Fagard Pdf

The idea of this book on "Neglected Aspects of Motion-Event Description" comes from the observation that, over the last 30 years, much attention has been devoted to the manner/path divide in relation to the distinction between Verb-Framed and Satellite-Framed languages. This mainstream focus has left aside other aspects of motion event descriptions. The chapters of this volume take an in-depth look at three less-studied aspects of motion expression. The first part of the book focuses on directional deixis, especially in relation to associated motion and visual motion. The second part explores variations in Source-Goal asymmetries. The third part investigates different types of motion event constructions, e.g., with various types of co-events. Many languages are taken into consideration throughout the 11 chapters, which gives the volume a clear typological dimension. This book is intended for students and academics interested in motion, spatial semantics, typological variation and cognitive linguistics.

Author : Carine Yuk-man Yiu
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110341768

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The Typology of Motion Events by Carine Yuk-man Yiu Pdf

This comprehensive study concentrates particularly on the use of a closed set of motion verbs in five of the major dialects, including Mandarin, Wú, Hakka, Min and Cantonese. The author shows that these dialects form a continuum with some exhibiting more characteristics of a verb-framed language than the others. The phenomenon reflects the various stages of typological transformation and grammaticalization that the dialects have undergone.

Author : Till Woerfel
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781501507977

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Encoding Motion Events by Till Woerfel Pdf

Children who grow up as second- or third-generation immigrants typically acquire and speak the minority language at home and the majority language at school. Recurrently, these children have been the subject of controversial debates about their linguistic abilities in relation to their educational success. However, such debates fail to recognise that variation in bilinguals’ language processing is a phenomenon in its own right that results from the dynamic influence of one language on another. This volume provides insight into cross-linguistic influence in Turkish-German and Turkish-French bilingual children and uncovers the nature of variation in L1 and L2 oral motion event descriptions by evaluating the impact of language-specific patterns and language dominance. The results indicate that next to typological differences between the speakers’ L1 and L2, language dominance has an impact on the type and direction of influence. However, the author argues that most variation can be explained by L1/L2 usage preferences. Bilinguals make frequent use of patterns that exist in both languages, but are unequally preferred by monolingual speakers. This finding underlines the importance of usage-based approaches in SLA.

Author : William S.-Y. Wang,Chaofen Sun
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
Page : 793 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780199856336

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The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Linguistics by William S.-Y. Wang,Chaofen Sun Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Linguistics offers a broad and comprehensive coverage of the entire field from a multi-disciplinary perspective. All chapters are contributed by leading scholars in their respective areas. This Handbook contains eight sections: history, languages and dialects, language contact, morphology, syntax, phonetics and phonology, socio-cultural aspects and neuro-psychological aspects. It provides not only a diachronic view of how languages evolve, but also a synchronic view of how languages in contact enrich each other by borrowing new words, calquing loan translation and even developing new syntactic structures. It also accompanies traditional linguistic studies of grammar and phonology with empirical evidence from psychology and neurocognitive sciences. In addition to research on the Chinese language and its major dialect groups, this handbook covers studies on sign languages and non-Chinese languages, such as the Austronesian languages spoken in Taiwan.

Author : Dan Xu
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008-08-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781402083211

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Space in Languages of China by Dan Xu Pdf

Space has long been a popular topic in linguistic research. Numerous books on the subject have been published over the past decade. However, none of these books were based on linguistic data from Chinese and expressions of space in Chinese have been largely neglected in past research. In this volume, not only Mandarin Chinese (the standard language) is investigated; several other dialects, as well as a minority language of China and Chinese Sign Language are studied. Cross-linguistic, synchronic and diachronic approaches are used to investigate phenomena related to space. The authors of this book present different points of view on the expression of space in language and related theoretical issues. As the contributing scholars argue, Chinese shares many common features with other languages, but also presents some particular properties. Space is a topic that is both classical and modern, of enduring interest. These studies of space give insight into not only general linguistics but also other domains such as anthropology and psychology.

Author : 曹廣順,Hilary Chappell,Redouane Djamouri,Thekla Wiebusch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Chinese language
ISBN : UCSD:31822041306408

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綜古述今, 鉤深取極 by 曹廣順,Hilary Chappell,Redouane Djamouri,Thekla Wiebusch Pdf

Author : Julie Bakken Jepsen,Goedele De Clerck,Sam Lutalo-Kiingi,William B. McGregor
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 1018 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781614518174

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Sign Languages of the World by Julie Bakken Jepsen,Goedele De Clerck,Sam Lutalo-Kiingi,William B. McGregor Pdf

Although a number of edited collections deal with either the languages of the world or the languages of particular regions or genetic families, only a few cover sign languages or even include a substantial amount of information on them. This handbook provides information on some 38 sign languages, including basic facts about each of the languages, structural aspects, history and culture of the Deaf communities, and history of research. This information will be of interest not just to general audiences, including those who are deaf, but also to linguists and students of linguistics. By providing information on sign languages in a manner accessible to a less specialist audience, this volume fills an important gap in the literature.

Author : Nan Jiang
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443857536

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Advances in Chinese as a Second Language by Nan Jiang Pdf

This book is a collection of 13 empirical studies examining the acquisition and processing of Chinese as a second language. On the acquisition front, these studies explore the acquisition of structures such as the perfective marker le, wh-questions, bei- constructions, and bare nouns, and examine the factors that may affect acquisition such as learners’ background, anxiety, and instruction. Processing studies cover topics such as the identification of Chinese tones, the recognition of characters, the processing of compounds and relative clauses, and the expression of motion events. Many of these studies represent pioneering and cutting-edge research on their respective topics, and all will be of interest to students and scholars who are interested in the study of acquisition and processing of Chinese as a second language.

Author : Alberto Hijazo-Gascón,Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443886635

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New Horizons in the Study of Motion by Alberto Hijazo-Gascón,Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano Pdf

Talmy’s lexicalization patterns and Slobin’s “Thinking for Speaking” hypothesis have attracted a lot of attention in fields such as linguistics, psychology, and anthropology, among others. While researchers might not agree on how, or to what extent, lexicalization patterns influence speakers’ online/offline verbalization of motion, it is an undeniable fact that these theories have been, and still are, a “trending topic” in these research areas, evidenced by the contributions to this book. All papers brought together here use Talmy’s and Slobin’s ideas as a point of departure to explore how second language learners acquire these motion patterns, to explain what translators render in their target languages, and to refine some basic notions such as Path, Deixis, or fictive motion, and use them as a springboard to find new applications and understand other linguistic phenomena. All in all, this book provides insights into new ways of applying motion and widening theoretical perspectives, allowing these models to maintain their relevance and importance.

Author : Carita Paradis,Jean Hudson,Ulf Magnusson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191613142

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The Construal of Spatial Meaning by Carita Paradis,Jean Hudson,Ulf Magnusson Pdf

This book considers how language users express and understand literal and metaphorical spatial meaning not only in language but also through gesture and pointing. Researchers explore the ways in which theoretical developments in language and cognition, new empirical techniques, and new computational facilities have led to a greater understanding of the relationship between physical space and mental space as expressed in human communication.