Space in diachrony / edited by Silvia Luraghi, Tatiana Nikitina and Chiara Zanchi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Luraghi, Silvia, 1958- editor.

Nikitina, Tatiana, editor.

Zanchi, Chiara, editor.

Series:

Studies in language companion series ; volume 188.

Studies in language companion series, 0165-7763 ; volume 188

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Space and time in language.

Cognitive grammar.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (390 pages) : color illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2017]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Intro

Space in Diachrony

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

Abbreviations

An introduction

Silvia Luraghi1, Tatiana Nikitina2 &amp

Chiara Zanchi1

The goal-over-source principle in European languages

Preliminary results from a parallel corpus study

Annemarie Verkerk

Overlaps in spatial encodings

Evidence from the Indo-European translations of the New Testament

Olga A. Thomason &amp

Hanne M. Eckhoff

Ablative and allative marking of static locations

A historical perspective

Tatiana Nikitina

How should a "classical" Satellite-Framed Language behave?

Path encoding asymmetries in Ancient Greek and Latin

Claudio Iacobini, Luisa Corona, Noemi De Pasquale, &amp

Alfonsina Buoniconto

Differential Goal marking vs. differential Source marking in Ancient Greek

Silvia Luraghi

New evidence for Source-Goal asymmetry

Ancient Greek preverbs

Chiara Zanchi

A diachronic take on the Source-Goal asymmetry

Evidence from inner Asia Minor Greek

Thanasis Georga kopoulos &amp

Petros Karatsareas

Asymmetries in path encoding in Sicilian

A diachronic overview

Luisa Brucale &amp

Egle Mocciaro

Source-oriented and goal-oriented events in old and Modern French

Anetta Kopecka

Source-Location ambiguity and incipient decline in the recent evolution of the English directional particle away

Diana M. Lewis

Prepositional phrase vs. bare instrumental

The trajectory of motion in Russian

Natalia Philippova

1. Asymmetries in the space domain

2. Asymmetries between sources and goals

3. Differential marking of spatial relations

4. Overview of the book

References

1. Introduction

2. The goal-over-source principle in path encoding.

3. The current study: Data collection and coding

4. Results

5. Why do these translations display a goal bias?

5.1 Dependencies between path encoding measures

5.2 Goals are added to translations to avoid ambiguity

6. Why do some translations display a larger goal bias than others?

6.1 Talmian typology does not explain cross-linguistic differences

6.2 Language history does not explain cross-linguistic differences

6.3 Geographic distance does not explain cross-linguistic differences

6.4 Further explanations for cross-linguistic variation

7. Conclusion: The encoding of source, trajectory and goal in Indo‑European

Acknowledgments

Appendices

2. Corpus and method

3. Interpreting the semantic map

4. Ablative-locative interactions

4.1 The notion of proximity

4.2 Allative meanings

5. Locative-perlative interactions

5.1 Notion of proximity

5.2 Allative meanings

6. Ablative-perlative interactions

7. Conclusions

2. Static spatial relators vs. access paths

3. Etymology of spatial prepositions

4. Motion-based strategies in ancient languages

5. Access paths in modern languages

5.1 Lexical restrictions

5.2 Access paths in Russian: 'left' and 'right'

5.3 Access paths in Russian: Cardinal directions

5.4 Summary of the Russian data

6. Conclusion

Online resources

2. Corpus and methodology

3. Path asymmetry meets Path complexity

3.1 The main loci of Source and Goal encoding and their frequency in Ancient Greek and Latin

3.2 Semantic granularity of Source and Goal markers.

3.3 Cooptation of locative expressions for the encoding of Goal and Source

4. Possible development lines towards the Verb-Framed type

5. Conclusions

2. Differential case marking

2.1 Differential marking of core arguments

2.2 Other types of DCM

3. Differential marking of spatial relations in Ancient Greek

3.1 Nouns with spatial reference

3.2 Goal expressions with human landmarks in Homer

3.3 Source expressions with human landmarks in Homer

3.4 DCM in Herodotus

4. Discussion

5. Conclusion

2. Theoretical framework

2.1 Spatial relations in Cognitive Grammar

2.2 The typology of motion verbs

2.3 Grammaticalization theory

3. Encoding spatial relations in Ancient Greek

4. The synchronic Source-Goal asymmetries

5. Source-Goal asymmetry in the grammaticalization of preverbs

6. Discussion and conclusion

2. The inner Asia Minor Greek dialect group and the diatopy-as-diachrony method

3. Theoretical and terminological background

4. Source-Goal (a)symmetry in inner Asia Minor Greek

4.1 Manifestations of (a)symmetry

4.2 Source-Goal (a)symmetry in Stage I varieties

4.3 Source-Goal (a)symmetry in Stage II and Stage III varieties

5. Further developments in the marking of Source and Goal in iAMGr

6. Concluding remarks

Spatial interrogatives

2. Theory, methodology, and basic notions

3. Typology - synchronic and diachronic data

4. Indo-European

4.1 From Latin to Romance

4.2 Reinforcement and renovation

Sources [Le Petit Prince].

References

Appendix 1. Cross-linguistic sample (n = 434)

Appendix 2. Romance languages with expansive ubi

Appendix 3. Romance languages with unde in Source-function alone

Appendix 4. Romance languages with expansive unde

1. Spatial relation in Sicilian: Preliminary remarks

2. Source vs. Direction (and Location)

2.1 Source

2.2 Location and direction

2.2.1 Diachronic perspectives

3. Path

3.1 The preposition (p)pi 'through'

3.2 The locative preposition nn(i) 'in, inside'

3.3 Nominal reduplication

3.4 Diachronic perspectives

4. Spatial relation in Sicilian: A systematization

Primary sources

2. A typological change in the distribution of spatial semantics in French

3. Types of events in Old French narratives and Modern French translations

3.1 Simplex vs. complex Path expressions

3.2 Types of simplex vs. complex Path expressions

4. Attention to initial and final portions of Path

4.1 Source-oriented events

4.2 Goal-oriented events

4.3 Source-and-Goal oriented events

5. The particle en in Old French

Coding manual

Dictionaries

Medieval narratives and their translations into Modern French

2. Away in present-day English

3. The corpus and the data on away

4. Recent evolution of away

4.1 Origins and trends

4.2 The development of locative away

5. Potential decline of directional away

5.1 Idiomatization / lexicalization of V-away

5.2 Decline of V-away and autonomous away

5.3 Away and off

6. Possible motivations for an away &gt.

off shift

7. Conclusion

2. Data

3. Noun-related factors

3.1 Constraints on Russian instrumental case

3.2 Configuration of the Ground object

3.3 Noun frequencies

4. Verb-related factors

4.1 Manner vs. non-manner verbs

4.2 Aspect

4.3 Inherent trajectory of the verb

4.4 Verb frequencies

5. Genre

6. Discussion and concluding remarks

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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