Space and Time in Languages and Cultures

Linguistic diversity

Editors

Luna Filipović | University of East Anglia

Katarzyna M. Jaszczolt | University of Cambridge

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This volume offers novel insights into linguistic diversity in the domains of spatial and temporal reference, searching for uniformity amongst diversity. A number of authors discuss expression of dynamic spatial relations cross-linguistically in a vast range of typologically different languages such as Bezhta, French, Hinuq, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Serbian, and Spanish, among others. The contributions on linguistic expression of time all shed new light on pertinent questions regarding this cognitive domain, such as the hotly debated relationship between cross-linguistic differences in talking about time and universal principles of utterance interpretation, modelling temporal inference through aspectual interactions, as well as the complexity of the acquisition of tense-aspect relations in a second language.
The topic of space and time in language and culture is also represented, from a different point of view, in the sister volume Space and Time in Languages and Cultures: Language, culture, and cognition (HCP 37) which discusses spatial and temporal constructs in human language, cognition, and culture in order to come closer to a better understanding of the interaction between shared and individual characteristics of language and culture that shape the way people interact with each other and exchange information about the spatio-temporal constructs that underlie their cognitive, social, and linguistic foundations.

[Human Cognitive Processing, 36] 2012. xv, 492 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/hcp.36

Table of Contents

Editors and contributors | pp. ix–xiii

Foreword: Space and time in languages, cultures, and cognition | pp. xiii–xv

Introduction: Linguistic diversity in the spatio-temporal domain

Luna Filipović and Katarzyna M. Jaszczolt | pp. 1–12

I. Representing location in space and time

1. Spatial relations in Hinuq and Bezhta

Diana Forker | pp. 15–34

2. Pragmatically disambiguating space: Experimental and cross-linguistic evidence

Didier Maillat | pp. 35–52

3. The semantics of the perfect progressive in English

Keith Allan | pp. 53–72

4. Drowning “into” the river in North Sámi: Uses of the illative

Peter Svenonius | pp. 73–94

5. Cross-linguistic differences in expressing time and universal principles of utterance interpretation

Katarzyna M. Jaszczolt | pp. 95–122

6. Modelling temporal reasoning: Aspectual interaction in determiners, adverbs, and dialogue

Alice G.B. ter Meulen | pp. 123–134

7. Language-specific perspectives in reference to time in the discourse of Czech, English, and Hungarian speakers

Norbert Vanek | pp. 135–156

8. More than “time”: The grammaticalisation of the German tense system and ‘frame of reference’ as a crucial interface between space and time

Sonja Zeman | pp. 157–178

II. Space and time in language acquisition

9. L2 acquisition of tense-aspect morphology: Lexical aspect, morphological regularity, and transfer

Ho Leung Chan, Jessica Finberg, Willie Costello and Yasuhiro Shirai | pp. 181–204

10. Motion events in Japanese and English: Does learning a second language change the way you view the world?

Zoe Pei-sui Luk | pp. 205–232

11. ‘He walked up the pole with arms and legs’: Typology in second language acquisition

Ivana Vidaković | pp. 233–262

12. Caused motion events across languages and learner types: A comparison of bilingual first and adult second language acquisition

Helen Engemann, Anne-Katharina Harr and Maya Hickmann | pp. 263–288

13. Spatial prepositions in Italian L2: Universal and language-specific principles

Giovanna Marotta and Linda Meini | pp. 289–324

14. Expressing simultaneity using aspect: A comparison of oral productions in French L1, Tunisian Arabic L1, and French L2 by Tunisian learners

Inès Saddour | pp. 325–346

III. Dynamic relations in space and time domains

15. Variation in motion events: Theory and applications

Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano and Alberto Hijazo-Gascón | pp. 349–372

16. Italian motion constructions: Different functions of ‘particles’

Monica Mosca | pp. 373–394

17. A temporal approach to motion verbs: ‘Come’ and ‘go’ in English and East Asian languages

Yumiko Nishi | pp. 395–416

18. The role of grammar in the conceptualisation of ‘progression’: A comparative analysis of Dutch and Japanese event descriptions

Keiko Yoshioka and Béryl Hilberink-Schulpen | pp. 417–436

19. The locative PP motion construction in Polish: A third lexicalisation pattern?

Wojciech Lewandowski | pp. 437–458

20. Path salience in motion descriptions in Jaminjung

Dorothea Hoffmann | pp. 459–480

Contents of the companion volume: Language, culture, and cognition | pp. 481–482

Name index | pp. 483–486

Subject index | pp. 487–490

Language index | pp. 491–492

“This volume is a precious collection of twenty papers from the 2010 Cambridge University Conference on Space and Time across Languages, Disciplines and Cultures. [...] Time and space are many-splendored things. So is this book.”

Johan van der Auwera, University of Antwerp

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