Full 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.
Contents
1. Editors and contributors; 2. Preface; 3. Introduction: Beyond typology: The encoding of motion events across time and varieties (by Goschler, Juliana); 4. Part I. Variation; 5. Typology as a continuum: Intratypological evidence from English and Serbo-Croatian (by Filipovic, Luna); 6. Same family, different paths: Intratypological differences in three Romance languages (by Hijazo-Gascon, Alberto); 7. Disentangling manner and path: Evidence from varieties of German and Romance (by Berthele, Raphael); 8. The encoding of motion events: Building typology bottom-up from text data in many languages (by Walchli, Bernhard); 9. Motion events in Turkish-German contact varieties (by Goschler, Juliana); 10. Variation in the categorization of motion events by Danish, German, Turkish, and L2 Danish speakers (by Jessen, Moiken); 11. Part II. Change; 12. Describing motion events in Old and Modern French: Discourse effects of a typological change (by Kopecka, Anetta); 13. Lexical splits in the encoding of motion events from Archaic to Classical Greek (by Nikitina, Tatiana); 14. Caused-motion verbs in the Middle English intransitive motion construction (by Huber, Judith); 15. Variation and change in English path verbs and constructions: Usage patterns and conceptual structure (by Stefanowitsch, Anatol); 16. Author index; 17. Language index; 18. Subject index
