The semantics of dynamic space in French : descriptive, experimental and formal studies on motion expression / edited by Michel Aurnague, Dejan Stosic.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Aurnague, Mixel, 1963- editor.

Stosic, Dejan, editor.

Series:

Human cognitive processing ; v. 66.

Human cognitive processing (HCP) ; volume 66

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

French language--Semantics.

French language.

Motion in language.

Physical Description:

viii, 396 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amersterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2019]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Recent advances in the study of motion in French: a survey / Michel Aurnague and Dejan Stosic

About asymmetry of motion in French: some properties and a principle / Michel Aurnague

French motion verbs: insights into the status of locative PPs / Laure Sarda Lattice

From il s'envole hors to il sort du nid: a typological change in French motion expressions / Benjamin Fagard Lattice

Manner as a cluster concept: what does lexical coding of manner of motion tell us about manner? / Dejan Stosic

Motion verbs and evaluative morphology / Dejan Stosic and Dany Amiot

Fictive motion in French: Where do the data lead? / Fabien Cappelli

Casting an eye on motion events: eye tracking and its implications for linguistic typology / Efstathia Soroli, Maya Hickmann and Henriette Hendriks

Structure of French expression of motion: gesture-speech relation, between-language comparison and developmental perspective / Katerina Fibigerova and Michèle Guidetti

A computational account of virtual travelers in the Montagovian generative lexicon / Anaïs Lefeuvre-Halftermeyer, Richard Moot and Christian Retoré

Geoparsing and geocoding places in a dynamic space context: the case of hiking descriptions / Mauro Gaio and Ludovic Moncla.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Semantics of dynamic space in French

ISBN:

9789027203205

9027203202

OCLC:

1088670370