Presented to you through Paradigm Publishing Services
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Book
Licensed
Unlicensed
Requires Authentication
The Semantics of Dynamic Space in French
Descriptive, experimental and formal studies on motion expression
-
Edited by:
and
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2019
About this book
Research on the semantics of spatial markers in French is known mainly through Vandeloise’s (1986, 1991) work on static prepositions. However, interest in the expression of space in French goes back to the mid-1970s and focused first on verbs denoting changes in space, whose syntactic properties were related to specific semantic distinctions, such as the opposition between “movement” and “displacement”. This volume provides an overview of recent studies on the semantics of dynamic space in French and addresses important questions about motion expression, among which “goal bias” and asymmetry of motion, the status of locative PPs, the expression of manner, fictive or non-actual motion. Descriptive, experimental and formal or computational analyses are presented, providing complementary perspectives on the main issue. The volume is intended for researchers and advanced students wishing to learn about both spatial semantics in French and recent debates on the representation of motion events in language and cognition.
Topics
-
Download PDFPublicly Available
Prelim pages
i -
Download PDFPublicly Available
Table of contents
v -
Download PDFPublicly Available
Contributors
vii -
Download PDFPublicly Available
Acknowledgments
ix -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Recent advances in the study of motion in French
1 - Part I. Arguments, modifiers, asymmetry of motion
-
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
About asymmetry of motion in French
31 -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
French motion verbs
67 -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
From il s’envole hors to il sort du nid
109 - Part II. Manner of motion and fictive motion
-
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Manner as a cluster concept
141 -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Motion verbs and evaluative morphology
179 -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Fictive motion in French
217 - Part III. Psycholinguistic issues
-
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Casting an eye on motion events
249 -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Structure of French expression of motion
289 - Part IV. Formal and computational aspects of motion-based narrations
-
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
A computational account of virtual travelers in the Montagovian generative lexicon
323 -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Geoparsing and geocoding places in a dynamic space context
353 -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Subject index
387
Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
July 26, 2019
eBook ISBN:
9789027262509
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
396
This book is in the series
eBook ISBN:
9789027262509
Keywords for this book
Theoretical linguistics; Romance linguistics; Semantics; Cognition and language; Cognitive linguistics
Audience(s) for this book
Professional and scholarly;