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Variation and Change in the Encoding of Motion Events

By Anatol Stefanowitsch , Juliana Goschler

Book information

Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Year
2013
ISBN
9027223955, 9789027223951
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2015751 bytes)
Series
Human Cognitive Processing
Pages
261\262
Scanned
yes
Time added
2015-12-08 02:14:29
Языки и языкознание;Лингвистика;Когнитивная лингви

Description

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.

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