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Volume 1 Case Studies of Linguistic Representations of Motion
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Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2025
About this book
How languages describe spatial motion events has been a hotly discussed topic in recent years in cognitive linguistics and linguistic typology. This two-volume book provides new descriptions and proposals on this fascinating topic, based on a large-scale experimental study of motion event descriptions in almost 20 languages across the globe as part of a research project conducted by NINJAL. The chapters are based on papers presented at international conferences (most at NINJAL international symposium held in January 2019, some at International Cognitive Linguistics Conferences in 2017 and 2019). This volume provides valuable descriptions of familiar and unfamiliar languages as well as insightful discussions of controversial issues based on those descriptions. This book would interest students in linguistics and cognitive science in Asia-Pacific, Europe and North America.
Author / Editor information
Yo Matsumoto, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (NINJAL), Tokyo, Japan.
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Frontmatter
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Series preface
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Preface
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Contents
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List of contributors
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Chapter 1 Introduction: NINJAL project on motion event descriptions across languages (MEDAL)
1 - Section 1: Languages in Africa
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Chapter 2 Motion event descriptions in Mombasa Swahili: An experimental study
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Chapter 3 Kupsapiiny as a predominantly anti-verbframed, nonhead path-coding language
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Chapter 4 Does the degree of integration of constructions iconically reflect motion event types? The case of Sidaama
129 - Section 2: Languages in Europe
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Chapter 5 Motion event descriptions in English, German, and Norwegian
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Chapter 6 Motion event descriptions in French
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Chapter 7 Path-coding patterns in Italian motion event descriptions
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Chapter 8 The interaction of motion semantic (sub)components in Spanish motion verbs
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Chapter 9 Motion Event Descriptions in Navarro-Lapurdian Basque
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Chapter 10 Path coding in Hungarian: Focus on preverbs
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Chapter 11 Motion event descriptions in Russian: An experimental study
395 - Section 3: Languages in Asia
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Chapter 12 Motion event descriptions in Turkish
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Chapter 13 Motion event descriptions in Khorchin Mongolian
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Chapter 14 Motion event descriptions in Japanese: The use of verbal complexes and its impact on typological issues
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Chapter 15 Motion event descriptions in Mandarin Chinese
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Chapter 16 Motion event descriptions and deictic verbs in Kathmandu Newar: An experimental study
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Chapter 17 Motion event descriptions in Thai
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Chapter 18 Motion event descriptions in Ilocano
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Chapter 19 Motion event descriptions in Tagalog
711 - Section 4: Language in the Americas
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Chapter 20 Motion event descriptions in Ayacucho Quechua
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Index
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Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
February 17, 2025
eBook ISBN:
9783110690866
Hardcover published on:
February 17, 2025
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110690828
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Front matter:
14
Main content:
787
Illustrations:
28
Coloured Illustrations:
220
Tables:
113
Audience(s) for this book
Researchers, Students in Linguistics and Cognitive Science in Asia, Europe and North America
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BY-NC-ND 4.0
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