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Motion and Space across Languages: Theory and applications
Edited by Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano
[Human Cognitive Processing 59] 2017
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Chapter 1
The typology of manner expressions

A preliminary look

 | Nagoya University
The morphosyntax of manner expressions has attracted less attention than that of path expressions in the framing typology. Drawing primarily on experimental and quantitative data in Japanese and English, we propose and examine three parameters in the complex typology of manner expressions. It is argued that coarse-grained, event-inherent manners that the speaker does not intend to stress (e.g. normal running) are more likely to be realized in tight morphosyntactic constructions headed by manner verbs than fine-grained, event-concomitant manners that the speaker intends to stress (e.g. an annoying and characteristic shout of a jogger). The proposed parameters appear to share an iconic, communicative motivation that links pragmatic prominence with morphosyntactic prominence.
Keywords: grain size, event inherence, expressiveness, ideophones, Japanese, English
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Previous studies
    • 2.1Manner and manner expressions
    • 2.2Manner and the framing typology
  • 3.Grain size
  • 4.Event inherence
  • 5.Expressiveness
  • 6.Discussion and conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 14 August 2017
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