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Neglected Aspects of Motion-Event Description

Author : Laure Sarda,Benjamin Fagard
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 47,9 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.

Variation and Change in the Encoding of Motion Events

Author : Juliana Goschler,Anatol Stefanowitsch
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 49,9 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.

The Typology of Motion Events

Author : Carine Yuk-man Yiu
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 51,7 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.

Broader Perspectives on Motion Event Descriptions

Author : Yo Matsumoto,Kazuhiro Kawachi
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027261069

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Broader Perspectives on Motion Event Descriptions by Yo Matsumoto,Kazuhiro Kawachi Pdf

Human languages exhibit fascinating commonalities and variations in the ways they describe motion events. In this volume, the contributors present their research results concerning motion event descriptions in the languages that they investigate. The volume features new proposals based on a broad range of data involving different kinds of motion events previously understudied, such as caused motion (e.g., kick a ball across) and even visual motion (e.g., look into a hole). Special attention is also paid to deixis, a hitherto neglected aspect of motion event descriptions. A wide range of languages is examined, including those spoken in Europe, Africa, and Asia. The results provide new insights into the patterns languages deploy to represent motion events. This volume will appeal to anyone interested in language universals and typology, as well as the relationship between language and thought.

Motion and Space across Languages

Author : Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 52,9 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.

The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Typology

Author : Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald,R. M. W. Dixon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1107464889

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The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Typology by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald,R. M. W. Dixon Pdf

Linguistic typology identifies both how languages vary and what they all have in common. This Handbook provides a state-of-the art survey of the aims and methods of linguistic typology, and the conclusions we can draw from them. Part I covers phonological typology, morphological typology, sociolinguistic typology and the relationships between typology, historical linguistics and grammaticalization. It also addresses typological features of mixed languages, creole languages, sign languages and secret languages. Part II features contributions on the typology of morphological processes, noun categorization devices, negation, frustrative modality, logophoricity, switch reference and motion events. Finally, Part III focuses on typological profiles of the mainland South Asia area, Australia, Quechuan and Aymaran, Eskimo-Aleut, Iroquoian, the Kampa subgroup of Arawak, Omotic, Semitic, Dravidian, the Oceanic subgroup of Austronesian and the Awuyu-Ndumut family (in West Papua). Uniting the expertise of a stellar selection of scholars, this Handbook highlights linguistic typology as a major discipline within the field of linguistics.

Relating Events in Narrative, Volume 2

Author : Ludo Verhoeven,Sven Stromqvist
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2004-02-13
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781135621056

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Relating Events in Narrative, Volume 2 by Ludo Verhoeven,Sven Stromqvist Pdf

Relating Events in Narrative, Volume 2: Typological and Contextual Perspectives edited by Sven Strömqvist and Ludo Verhoeven, is the much anticipated follow-up volume to Ruth Berman and Dan Slobin's successful "frog-story studies" book, Relating Events in Narrative: A Crosslinguistic Developmental Study (1994). Working closely with Ruth Berman and Dan Slobin, the new editors have brought together a wide range of scholars who, inspired by the 1994 book, have all used Mercer Mayer's Frog, Where Are You? as a basis for their research. The new book, which is divided into two parts, features a broad linguistic and cultural diversity. Contributions focusing on crosslinguistic perspectives make up the first part of the book. This part is concluded by Dan Slobin with an analysis and overview discussion of factors of linguistic typology in frog-story research. The second part offers a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives, all dealing with contextual variation of narrative construction in a wide sense: variation across medium/modality (speech, writing, signing), genre variation (the specific frog story narrative compared to other genres), frog story narrations from the perspective of theory of mind, and from the perspective of bilingualism and second language acquisition. Several of the contributions to the new book manuscript also deal with developmental perspectives, but, in distinction to the 1994 book, that is not the only focused issue. The second part is initiated by Ruth Berman with an analysis of the role of context in developing narrative abilities. The new book represents a rich overview and illustration of recent advances in theoretical and methodological approaches to the crosslinguistic study of narrative discourse. A red thread throughout the book is that crosslinguistic variation is not merely a matter of variation in form, but also in content and aspects of cognition. A recurrent perspective on language and thought is that of Dan Slobin's theory of "thinking for speaking," an approach to cognitive consequences of linguistic diversity. The book ends with an epilogue by Herbert Clark, "Variations on a Ranarian Theme."

Associated Motion

Author : Antoine Guillaume,Harold Koch
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 702 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110692129

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Associated Motion by Antoine Guillaume,Harold Koch Pdf

This volume is the first book-length presentation of the grammatical category of Associated Motion. It provides a framework for understanding a grammatical phenomenon which, though present in many languages, has gone unrecognized until recently. Previously known primarily from languages of Australia and South America, grammatical AM marking has now been identified in languages from most parts of the world (except Europe) and is becoming an important topic in linguistic typology. The chapters provide a thorough introduction to the subject, discussion of the relation between AM and related grammatical concepts, detailed descriptions of AM in a wide range of the world’s languages, and surveys of AM in particular language families and areas.

Talking about Motion

Author : Luna Filipovi?
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 902723101X

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Cognitive Linguistics and Lexical Change

Author : Natalya I. Stolova
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027269867

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Cognitive Linguistics and Lexical Change by Natalya I. Stolova Pdf

This monograph offers the first in-depth lexical and semantic analysis of motion verbs in their development from Latin to nine Romance languages — Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Catalan, Occitan, Sardinian, and Raeto-Romance — demonstrating that the patterns of innovation and continuity attested in the data can be accounted for in cognitive linguistic terms. At the same time, the study illustrates how the insights gained from Latin and Romance historical data have profound implications for the cognitive approaches to language — in particular, for Leonard Talmy’s motion-framing typology and George Lakoff and Mark Johnson’s conceptual metaphor theory. The book should appeal to scholars interested in historical Romance linguistics, cognitive linguistics, and lexical change.

Encoding Motion Events in Mandarin Chinese

Author : Jingxia Lin
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 40,6 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.

Caused Accompanied Motion

Author : Anna Margetts,Sonja Riesberg,Birgit Hellwig
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 46,6 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.

Moving Across Languages

Author : Alberto Hijazo-Gascón
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110721096

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Moving Across Languages by Alberto Hijazo-Gascón Pdf

The book analyzes the complex relationship between languages in the bilingual mind with a focus on motion event typology and the acquisition of Spanish as a second language (L2). The author starts out by examining L1 patterns which are transferred to less complex L2 systems. The data discussed was elicited by German learners of Spanish. A similar transfer is observed when L1 is typologically and genetically close, as in the case of French and Italian learners of Spanish. Furthermore, the author clarifies the relevance of intra-typological differences within the same linguistic family, including important differences in the lexicalization patterns of Italian with respect to French and Spanish. The findings contribute to our understanding of the field of motion event typology and thinking-for-speaking. The book demonstrates that conceptual transfer is present in different aspects of the motion lexicalization domain. Interestingly, there are some challenging aspects both for speakers whose first language is typologically different and for those whose language is typologically close. The book offers suggestions on how these challenges in the restructuring of meaning in L2 can be addressed in language teaching. Specifically, pedagogical translation and mediation present promising pathways to the strengthening of semantic competences in the L2.

Motion and the English Verb

Author : Judith Huber
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780190657819

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Motion and the English Verb by Judith Huber Pdf

In Motion and the English Verb, a study of the expression of motion in medieval English, Judith Huber provides extensive inventories of verbs used in intransitive motion meanings in Old and Middle English, and discusses these in terms of the manner-salience of early English. Huber demonstrates how several non-motion verbs receive contextual motion meanings through their use in the intransitive motion construction. In addition, she analyzes which verbs and structures are employed most frequently in talking about motion in select Old and Middle English texts, demonstrating that while satellite-framing is stable, the extent of manner-conflation is influenced by text type and style. Huber further investigates how in the intertypological contact with medieval French, a range of French path verbs (entrer, issir, descendre, etc.) were incorporated into Middle English, in whose system of motion encoding they are semantically unusual. Their integration into Middle English is studied in an innovative approach which analyzes their usage contexts in autonomous Middle English texts as opposed to translations from French and Latin. Huber explains how these verbs were initially borrowed not for expressing general literal motion, but in more specific, often metaphorical and abstract contexts. Her study is a diachronic contribution to the typology of motion encoding, and advances research on the process of borrowing and loanword integration.

New Approaches to Slavic Verbs of Motion

Author : Viktoria Hasko,Renee Perelmutter
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027205827

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New Approaches to Slavic Verbs of Motion by Viktoria Hasko,Renee Perelmutter Pdf

This volume unifies a wide breadth of interdisciplinary studies examining the expression of motion in Slavic languages. The contributors to the volume have joined in the discussion of Slavic motion talk from diachronic, typological, comparative, cognitive, and acquisitional perspectives with a particular focus on verbs of motion, the nuclei of the lexicalization patterns for encoding motion. Motion verbs are notorious among Slavic linguists for their baffling idiosyncratic behavior in their lexical, semantic, syntactical, and aspectual characteristics. The collaborative effort of this volume is aimed both at highlighting and accounting for the unique properties of Slavic verbs of motion and at situating Slavic languages within the larger framework of typological research investigating cross-linguistic encoding of the motion domain. Due to the multiplicity of approaches to the linguistic analysis the collection offers, it will suitably complement courses and programs of study focusing on Slavic linguistics as well as typology, diachronic and comparative linguistics, semantics, and second language acquisition. "This important book is a model of in-depth exploration that is much needed: intra-typological, diachronic, and synchronic exploration of contrasting ways of encoding a particular semantic domain û in this case the domain of motion events. The various Slavic languages present contrasting but related solutions to the intersection of motion and aspect. And, as a group, they offer alternate forms of satellite-framed typology, in contrast to the more heavily studied Germanic languages of this general type. The up-to-date and interdisciplinary nature of the volume makes it essential reading in cognitive and typological linguistics."-Dan I. Slobin, Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley "A feast for the mind, with untold riches and variety: different approaches, patterns and usage, diachronic as well as synchronic, Slavic and not just Russian. All on a high intellectual level from capable scholars. Ful besy were the editors in every thing, That to the feste was appertinent."-Alan Timberlake, Columbia University