Talking about motion : a crosslinguistic investigation of lexicalization patterns / Luna Filipovic.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Filipović, Luna.

Series:

Studies in language companion series ; v. 91.

Studies in language companion series, 0165-7763 ; v. 91

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion in language.

Lexicology.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Verb.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Physical Description:

viii, 182 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is a corpus-based study of lexicalization of motion events in Serbo-Croatian and English, with contrasting examples from Spanish, French, Italian, Mandarin Chinese and Albanian. Talmy's typology (1985) provides the backdrop for the analysis and the focus is on intratypological differences that affect habitual presence or absence of information in motion expressions crosslinguistically as well as "pattern clashing" in translation. This fresh look at issues regarding linguistic typology, lexical and construction meaning and spatio-temporal construals in language and experience results in a more finely grained classification of verbalized motion events. The study offers an eclectic overview of different theoretical approaches and insists on theoretically unbiased set of tools and principles that can be used in studies of any cognitive domain in any language. It provides an in-depth discussion of current issues in cognitive linguistics in particular and suggests systematic implementation of the research findings in applied and interdisciplinary studies of language.

Contents:

Talking about Motion

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

dedication page

Table of contents

Acknowledgments

quote Hjemslev

1. Introduction

1.1 Why study lexicalization patterns?

1.2 Definition of the subject and approach

Summary

2. The point of departure

2.1 Data and method description

2.2 How the two systems work

2.3 Typological claims

2.4 Typology in action

2.5 Problems encountered

2.6 The notion of satellites

3. The proposed approach and central assumptions

3.1 Introducing situation types

3.2 Events in reality vs. events in language

3.3 Contra aspect?

4. The heart of the matter

5. Data analysis for English

5.1 What the tenses (do not) tell us

5.2 What verbs (do not) tell us

5.3 Particles that appear only in boundary-crossing expressions

5.4 Particles used in both boundary-crossing and non-boundary crossing expressions

5.4.1 Object of the preposition

5.4.2 Sentence complex

5.4.3 Defaults

5.4.4 Narrative context

6. Talking about motion in Serbo-Croatian

6.1 The importance of being a prefix

6.2 OD-/DO-: deixis, aspect, boundary

6.3 Other prefixes

6.4 Ups and downs

6.5 Other things we need to know about prefixes

6.6 In need of direction: directional verbs and pattern frequency

7. Moving on

7.1 Two levels of representation: two sides of the same coin?

7.2 Between a rock and a hard place: lexical and/or construction meaning

8. Conclusion

Bibliography

Dictionaries

Corpora

References

Appendix 1

Appendix 2

Index

The Studies in Language Companion Series.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-173) and index.

ISBN:

9786612151903

9781282151901

1282151908

9789027291226

9027291225

OCLC:

648331569