Motion and Space across Languages

Theory and applications

Editor

Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano | University of Zaragoza

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This volume offers a unique combination of interdisciplinary research and a comprehensive overview of motion and space studies from a semantic typological perspective. The chapters present cutting-edge research covering central topics such as the status of semantic components in motion event descriptions and their role in typological variation, the function of linguistic multimodal structures for the codification of motion, the diachronic evolution of motion expressions and its effects on motion typologies, the correspondences between physical and non-physical (fictive, metaphorical) motion, and the impact of contexts and genres on the characterization and interpretation of motion events. These issues are examined from a theoretical and applied linguistic perspective (L1–L2 acquisition, translation/interpreting). The analyses make use of diachronic and synchronic data collected by a range of methods (elicitation, experimentation, and corpus research) in more than fifteen languages. All in all, this book will be of great value to scholars and students interested in the expression of motion and space across languages.

[Human Cognitive Processing, 59] 2017. xiv, 460 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/hcp.59

Table of Contents

Editor and contributors | pp. xii–xiv

Foreword. Past, present, and future of motion research

Leonard Talmy | pp. 1–12

Introduction. Motion and semantic typology: A hot old topic with exciting caveats

Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano | pp. 13–36

Part I. Delving into motion event typology

Chapter 1. The typology of manner expressions: A preliminary look

Kimi Akita | pp. 39–60

Chapter 2. Expressing and categorizing motion in French and English: Verbal and non-verbal cognition across languages

Maya Hickmann, Helen Engemann, Efstathia Soroli, Henriëtte Hendriks and Coralie Vincent | pp. 61–94

Chapter 3. The functional nature of deictic verbs and the coding patterns of Deixis: An experimental study in English, Japanese, and Thai

Yo Matsumoto, Kimi Akita and Kiyoko Takahashi | pp. 95–122

Chapter 4. The importance of minority languages in motion event typology: The case of Aragonese and Catalan

Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano, Alberto Hijazo-Gascón and María-Teresa Moret-Oliver | pp. 123–150

Chapter 5. Latin to Ancient Italian motion constructions: A complex typological shift

Monica Mosca | pp. 151–176

Chapter 6. The early life of borrowed path verbs in English

Judith Huber | pp. 177–204

Chapter 7. Non-actual motion in language and experience

Johan Blomberg | pp. 205–228

Chapter 8. Metaphorical motion constructions across specialized genres

Rosario Caballero | pp. 229–254

Part II. Expanding motion event typology

Chapter 9. Crossing the road or crossing the mind : How differently do we move across physical and metaphorical spaces in speech and in gesture?

Şeyda Özçalışkan, Lauren J. Stites and Samantha N. Emerson | pp. 257–278

Chapter 10. Thinking for speaking about motion in a second language: Looking back and forward

Teresa Cadierno | pp. 279–300

Chapter 11. Motion event contrasts in Romance languages: Deixis in Spanish as a second language

Alberto Hijazo-Gascón | pp. 301–328

Chapter 12. Verb-framed, satellite-framed or in between? A L2 learner’s thinking for speaking in her L1 and L2 over 14 years

Gale Stam | pp. 329–366

Chapter 13. On the reception of translations: Exploring the impact of typological differences on legal contexts

Ana Rojo and Paula Cifuentes-Férez | pp. 367–398

Chapter 14. Applying language typology: Practical applications of research on typological contrasts between languages

Luna Filipović | pp. 399–418

Afterword. Typologies and language use

Dan I. Slobin | pp. 419–446

Author index | pp. 447–452

Subject index | pp. 453–457

Language index | pp. 459–460

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