Chapter 1. Introduction: The description of motion events

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Chapter 1. Introduction: The description of motion events 1
5. Part I. Motion and deixis
6. Chapter 2. What does deixis tell us about motion typology? 25
7. Chapter 3. Linguistic representations of visual motion 43
8. Chapter 4. Deictic directionals revisited in the light of advances in typology 69
9. Chapter 5. On a few instances where deictic directionals confound expectations 95
10. Part II. Motion and asymmetries
11. Chapter 6. Implicit landmarks and opposite polarities in French motion predicates 125
12. Chapter 7. Source–Goal asymmetry in Standard Chinese 149
13. Chapter 8. Source–Goal asymmetry in German 173
14. Part III. Motion and constructions
15. Chapter 9. Co-event relations in Swedish motion constructions 189
16. Chapter 10. The description of transitive directed motion in Lakhota (Siouan) 209
17. Chapter 11. Constraints constrained 235
18. Chapter 12. Lexical aspect and morphosyntactic cohesion between motion verbs and spatial particles in Homeric Greek 257
19. Language index 273
20. Subject index 275