Motion Encoding In Language And Space

Author : Mila Vulchanova,Emile van der Zee
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199661213

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Motion Encoding in Language and Space by Mila Vulchanova,Emile van der Zee Pdf

This book brings together researchers in linguistics, computer science, psychology and cognitive science to investigate how motion is encoded in language. Part I considers the parameters of the field, while part II looks at the way in which spatial scale or granularity plays a role in the encoding of motion in language.

Author : Carita Paradis,Jean Hudson,Ulf Magnusson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199641635

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

This book deals with how language users express and understand literal and metaphorical spatial meaning in language and through gesture and pointing. The research draws on data from textual investigation using corpora, as well as from experiments of various kinds, such as psycholinguistic experiments and eye-tracking.

Author : Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027265364

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Motion and Space across Languages by Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano Pdf

This volume offers a unique combination of interdisciplinary research and a comprehensive overview of motion and space studies from a semantic typological perspective. The chapters present cutting-edge research covering central topics such as the status of semantic components in motion event descriptions and their role in typological variation, the function of linguistic multimodal structures for the codification of motion, the diachronic evolution of motion expressions and its effects on motion typologies, the correspondences between physical and non-physical (fictive, metaphorical) motion, and the impact of contexts and genres on the characterization and interpretation of motion events. These issues are examined from a theoretical and applied linguistic perspective (L1–L2 acquisition, translation/interpreting). The analyses make use of diachronic and synchronic data collected by a range of methods (elicitation, experimentation, and corpus research) in more than fifteen languages. All in all, this book will be of great value to scholars and students interested in the expression of motion and space across languages.

Author : Juliana Goschler,Anatol Stefanowitsch
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 46,6 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 : Anna Margetts,Sonja Riesberg,Birgit Hellwig
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027257864

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Caused Accompanied Motion by Anna Margetts,Sonja Riesberg,Birgit Hellwig Pdf

This volume investigates the linguistic expression of directed caused accompanied motion events, including verbal concepts like BRING and TAKE. Contributions explore how speakers conceptualise and describe these events across areally, genetically, and typologically diverse languages of the Americas, Austronesia and Papua. The chapters investigate such events on the basis of spoken language corpora of endangered, underdescribed languages and in this way the volume showcases the importance of documentary linguistics for linguistic typology. The semantic domain of directed caused accompanied motion shows considerable crosslinguistic variation in how meaning components are conflated within single lexemes or distributed across morphemes or clauses. The volume presents a typology of common patterns and constraints in the linguistic expression of these events. The study of crosslinguistic event encoding provided in this volume contributes to our understanding of the nature, extent and limits of linguistic and cognitive diversity.

Author : Michel Aurnague,Dejan Stosic
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027262509

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The Semantics of Dynamic Space in French by Michel Aurnague,Dejan Stosic Pdf

Research on the semantics of spatial markers in French is known mainly through Vandeloise’s (1986, 1991) work on static prepositions. However, interest in the expression of space in French goes back to the mid-1970s and focused first on verbs denoting changes in space, whose syntactic properties were related to specific semantic distinctions, such as the opposition between “movement” and “displacement”. This volume provides an overview of recent studies on the semantics of dynamic space in French and addresses important questions about motion expression, among which “goal bias” and asymmetry of motion, the status of locative PPs, the expression of manner, fictive or non-actual motion. Descriptive, experimental and formal or computational analyses are presented, providing complementary perspectives on the main issue. The volume is intended for researchers and advanced students wishing to learn about both spatial semantics in French and recent debates on the representation of motion events in language and cognition.

Author : Andreas H. Jucker,Heiko Hausendorf
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 689 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110693812

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Pragmatics of Space by Andreas H. Jucker,Heiko Hausendorf Pdf

This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of spatial configurations of language use and of language use in space. It consists of four parts. The first part covers the various practices of describing space through language, including spatial references in spoken interaction or in written texts, the description of motion events as well as the creation of imaginative spaces in storytelling. The second part surveys aspects of the spatial organization of face-to-face communication including not only spatial arrangements of small groups in interaction but also the spatial dimension of sign language and gestures. The third part is devoted to the communicative resources of constructed spaces and the ways in which these facilitate and shape communication. Part four, finally, is devoted to pragmatics across space and cultures, i.e. the ways in which language use differs across language varieties, languages and cultures.

Author : Thora Tenbrink
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110198829

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Space, Time, and the Use of Language by Thora Tenbrink Pdf

Does temporal language depend on spatial language? This widespread view is intuitively appealing since spatial and temporal expressions are often similar or identical. Also, metaphors consistently express temporal phenomena in terms of spatial language, pointing to a close semantic and conceptual relationship. But what about the application of the two kinds of linguistic expressions in natural discourse? The book draws together findings on terms that describe the relation of objects or events to each other (such as in front / behind, before / after, etc.), highlighting the relationship between cognition and language usage. Using the method of cognitively motivated discourse analysis, novel empirical results are presented to complement earlier findings. The detailed investigation of a selected range of terms that appear to be parallel in space and time highlights both similarities and fundamental differences in their application. As a result, a new picture emerges: The concepts of space and time are represented in language usage in various systematic ways, reflecting how we understand the world - and at the same time reflecting how our concepts of space and time differ fundamentally. The volume contributes to a debate that has been of interest for cognitive linguists for several decades, concerning the understanding of transfer processes between two conceptually intertwined domains. The specific contribution of this work consists of addressing the novel question of how such processes come into play in the actual application of relevant expressions in natural discourse. By adopting established approaches from Discourse Analysis for issues that are deeply rooted in interdisciplinary research in Cognitive Science, insights are drawn together from two hitherto largely unrelated fields of research to approach the topic from an original perspective, leading to a deeper understanding of the relationship between the domains of space and time and their expression in language.

Author : Kenny R. Coventry,Thora Tenbrink,John Bateman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04-23
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780199554201

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Spatial Language and Dialogue by Kenny R. Coventry,Thora Tenbrink,John Bateman Pdf

This book considers how people talk about the location of objects and places. The book reports on the latest developments in the field of spatial language and sets an agenda for future research on spatial conceptualization and communication in cognitive science, computer science, psychology, and linguistics.

Author : Stephan Winter,Matt Duckham,Lars Kulik,Ben Kuipers
Publisher : Springer
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2007-08-26
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540747888

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Spatial Information Theory by Stephan Winter,Matt Duckham,Lars Kulik,Ben Kuipers Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory, COSIT 2007, held in Melbourne, Australia in September 2007. The 27 revised full papers were carefully reviewed from 102 submissions, and they are organized in topical sections on cultural studies, semantics, similarity, mapping and representation, perception and cognition, reasoning and algorithms, navigation and landmarks, as well as uncertainty and imperfection.

Author : Silvia Luraghi,Tatiana Nikitina,Chiara Zanchi
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027265197

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Space in Diachrony by Silvia Luraghi,Tatiana Nikitina,Chiara Zanchi Pdf

Space is a fundamental dimension of human life and is pervasive in human experience. Research on space has highlighted the possible asymmetrical nature of spatial relations. Differences in the encoding of goals and sources of motion are a case in point, and cross-linguistic coding tendencies show that path is less frequently flagged by a dedicated case than goal, source/origin, and (static) location (locative). Interestingly, such asymmetries may correlate with certain types of landmark, as in the case of toponyms or of animate entities. Even though these issues have been focused upon both in typological and psycholinguistic research, they remain largely open. The papers in this collection aim to show that a diachronic approach may shed light on the way in which asymmetries in the space domain come about over time, thus contributing to the clarification of synchronically puzzling facts.

Author : Christian Freksa,Nora S. Newcombe,Peter Gärdenfors,Stefan Wölfl
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09-10
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540876007

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Spatial Cognition VI. Learning, Reasoning, and Talking about Space by Christian Freksa,Nora S. Newcombe,Peter Gärdenfors,Stefan Wölfl Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Spatial Cognition, Spatial Cognition 2008, held in Freiburg, Germany, in September 2008. The 27 revised full papers presented together with 3 invited lectures were carefully reviewed and selected from 54 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on spatial orientation, spatial navigation, spatial learning, maps and modalities, spatial communication, spatial language, similarity and abstraction, concepts and reference frames, as well as spatial modeling and spatial reasoning.

Author : Arvi Tavast,Kadri Muischnek,Mare Koit
Publisher : IOS Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781614991328

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Human Language Technologies by Arvi Tavast,Kadri Muischnek,Mare Koit Pdf

Human language technologies continue to play an important part in the modern information society.This book contains papers presented at the fifth international conference 'Human Language Technologies - The Baltic Perspective (Baltic HLT 2012)', held in Tartu, Estonia, in October 2012.Baltic HLT provides a special venue for new and ongoing work in computational linguistics and related disciplines, both in the Baltic states and in a broader geographical perspective. It brings together scientists, developers, providers and users of HLT, and is a forum for the sharing of new ideas and recent advances in human language processing, promoting cooperation between the research communities of computer science and linguistics from the Baltic countries and the rest of the world.Twenty long papers, as well as the posters or demos accepted for presentation at the conference, are published here. They cover a wide range of topics: morphological disambiguation, dependency syntax and valency, computational semantics, named entities, dialogue modeling, terminology extraction and management, machine translation, corpus and parallel corpus compiling, speech modeling and multimodal communication. Some of the papers also give a general overview of the state of the art of human language technology and language resources in the Baltic states.This book will be of interest to all those whose work involves the use and application of computational linguistics and related disciplines.

Author : Sergio Torres-Mart’nez
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780359759873

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Agentive Cognitive Construction Grammar: Exploring the Continuity of Environment, Body, Mind, and Language by Sergio Torres-Mart’nez Pdf

Author : Zlatka Guentchéva
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 740 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027267610

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Aspectuality and Temporality by Zlatka Guentchéva Pdf

This volume brings together a collection of articles exploring tense and aspect phenomena in a variety of non-related languages: Indo-European (Albanian, Bulgarian, Armenian, English, Norwegian, Hindi), Hamito-Semitic (Berber, Zenaga Berber, Arabic varieties, Neo-Aramaic), African (Wolof, Langi), Asian (Badaga, Korean, Mongolian languages – Khalkha, Buriat, Kalmuck – Thaï, Tibetic languages), Amerindian (Yucatec Maya, Sikuani), Greenlandic (Eskimo) and Oceanian (Nêlêmwa). Each article is grounded in solid empirical knowledge. It offers an in-depth study of aspectual and temporal devices as manifested in many diverse and complex ways from a cross-linguistic perspective and seeks to contribute to our understanding of the domain under consideration and more broadly to linguistic typology and theoretical linguistics, especially the enunciative approach. The book gives readers access to a collection of data and is of particular interest to scholars working on aspectuality and temporality, on pragmatics, on areal linguistics and on typology.