Chapter 8. Source–Goal asymmetry in German
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Laura Guse
Abstract
Following years of intensive research in the field of motion event representation and its encoding in language, it can be concluded that goal paths are predominantly privileged over source paths across many languages and different event types (e.g., Ikegami 1987, Lakusta and Landau 2005, Stefanowitsch and Rohde 2004, Song, this volume). This chapter has two aims: first, to cover the aspect of the granularity of lexicalization patterns encoding goal and source paths in the German language based on qualitative analysis and second, to show that in language, the factors animacy and volition are not mapped onto syntactic structures and do not directly influence the frequency of encoding goal paths. The quantitative corpus study reveals verb-specific preferences for encoding different path elements.
Abstract
Following years of intensive research in the field of motion event representation and its encoding in language, it can be concluded that goal paths are predominantly privileged over source paths across many languages and different event types (e.g., Ikegami 1987, Lakusta and Landau 2005, Stefanowitsch and Rohde 2004, Song, this volume). This chapter has two aims: first, to cover the aspect of the granularity of lexicalization patterns encoding goal and source paths in the German language based on qualitative analysis and second, to show that in language, the factors animacy and volition are not mapped onto syntactic structures and do not directly influence the frequency of encoding goal paths. The quantitative corpus study reveals verb-specific preferences for encoding different path elements.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Foreword vii
- Chapter 1. Introduction: The description of motion events 1
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Part I. Motion and deixis
- Chapter 2. What does deixis tell us about motion typology? 25
- Chapter 3. Linguistic representations of visual motion 43
- Chapter 4. Deictic directionals revisited in the light of advances in typology 69
- Chapter 5. On a few instances where deictic directionals confound expectations 95
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Part II. Motion and asymmetries
- Chapter 6. Implicit landmarks and opposite polarities in French motion predicates 125
- Chapter 7. Source–Goal asymmetry in Standard Chinese 149
- Chapter 8. Source–Goal asymmetry in German 173
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Part III. Motion and constructions
- Chapter 9. Co-event relations in Swedish motion constructions 189
- Chapter 10. The description of transitive directed motion in Lakhota (Siouan) 209
- Chapter 11. Constraints constrained 235
- Chapter 12. Lexical aspect and morphosyntactic cohesion between motion verbs and spatial particles in Homeric Greek 257
- Language index 273
- Subject index 275
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Foreword vii
- Chapter 1. Introduction: The description of motion events 1
-
Part I. Motion and deixis
- Chapter 2. What does deixis tell us about motion typology? 25
- Chapter 3. Linguistic representations of visual motion 43
- Chapter 4. Deictic directionals revisited in the light of advances in typology 69
- Chapter 5. On a few instances where deictic directionals confound expectations 95
-
Part II. Motion and asymmetries
- Chapter 6. Implicit landmarks and opposite polarities in French motion predicates 125
- Chapter 7. Source–Goal asymmetry in Standard Chinese 149
- Chapter 8. Source–Goal asymmetry in German 173
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Part III. Motion and constructions
- Chapter 9. Co-event relations in Swedish motion constructions 189
- Chapter 10. The description of transitive directed motion in Lakhota (Siouan) 209
- Chapter 11. Constraints constrained 235
- Chapter 12. Lexical aspect and morphosyntactic cohesion between motion verbs and spatial particles in Homeric Greek 257
- Language index 273
- Subject index 275
