Case Studies of Linguistic Representations of Motion.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Matsumoto, Yo.

Contributor:

Matsumoto, Yo, editor.

Series:

The Mouton-NINJAL Library of Linguistics [MNLL] Series

The Mouton-NINJAL Library of Linguistics [MNLL] Series ; v.1

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (802 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Basel/Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter, Inc., 2025.

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

Yo Matsumoto, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (NINJAL), Tokyo, Japan.

Summary:

How languages describe spatial motion events has been a hotly discussed topic in recent years in cognitive linguistics and linguistic typology. This two-volume book provides new descriptions and proposals on this fascinating topic, based on a large-scale experimental study of motion event descriptions in almost 20 languages across the globe as part of a research project conducted by NINJAL. The chapters are based on papers presented at international conferences (most at NINJAL international symposium held in January 2019, some at International Cognitive Linguistics Conferences in 2017 and 2019). This volume provides valuable descriptions of familiar and unfamiliar languages as well as insightful discussions of controversial issues based on those descriptions. This book would interest students in linguistics and cognitive science in Asia-Pacific, Europe and North America.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Series preface

Preface

Contents

List of contributors

Chapter 1 Introduction: NINJAL project on motion event descriptions across languages (MEDAL)

Section 1: Languages in Africa

Chapter 2 Motion event descriptions in Mombasa Swahili: An experimental study

Chapter 3 Kupsapiiny as a predominantly anti-verbframed, nonhead path-coding language

Chapter 4 Does the degree of integration of constructions iconically reflect motion event types? The case of Sidaama

Section 2: Languages in Europe

Chapter 5 Motion event descriptions in English, German, and Norwegian

Chapter 6 Motion event descriptions in French

Chapter 7 Path-coding patterns in Italian motion event descriptions

Chapter 8 The interaction of motion semantic (sub)components in Spanish motion verbs

Chapter 9 Motion Event Descriptions in Navarro-Lapurdian Basque

Chapter 10 Path coding in Hungarian: Focus on preverbs

Chapter 11 Motion event descriptions in Russian: An experimental study

Section 3: Languages in Asia

Chapter 12 Motion event descriptions in Turkish

Chapter 13 Motion event descriptions in Khorchin Mongolian

Chapter 14 Motion event descriptions in Japanese: The use of verbal complexes and its impact on typological issues

Chapter 15 Motion event descriptions in Mandarin Chinese

Chapter 16 Motion event descriptions and deictic verbs in Kathmandu Newar: An experimental study

Chapter 17 Motion event descriptions in Thai

Chapter 18 Motion event descriptions in Ilocano

Chapter 19 Motion event descriptions in Tagalog

Section 4: Language in the Americas

Chapter 20 Motion event descriptions in Ayacucho Quechua

Index

Notes:

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

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ISBN:

3-11-069086-1

OCLC:

1498884731