Table of contents

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Editors and contributors vii
4. Preface vii
5. Introduction. Motion event descriptions in broader perspective 1
6. Part I. Path and Deixis in individual languages
7. Chapter 1. Distinct coding of Deixis and Path in Kathmandu Newar 25
8. Chapter 2. Patterns of deictic expressions in Hungarian motion event descriptions 41
9. Chapter 3. Patterns of path encoding in German 63
10. Chapter 4. Syntactic and semantic structures of Thai motion expressions 105
11. Part II. Crosslinguistic and theoretical studies
12. Chapter 5. A fine-grained analysis of manner salience 143
13. Chapter 6. Attraction of attention in perceived motion events weighed against typology and cognitive cost 181
14. Chapter 7. Should Talmy’s motion typology be expanded to visual motion? 205
15. Chapter 8. Looking into visual motion expressions in Dutch, English, and French 235
16. Chapter 9. Neutral and specialized path coding 281
17. Subject index 319
18. Name index 317