Typology of motion events in Tugen
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Prisca Jerono
Dr. Prisca Jerono is a lecturer at the Department of Kiswahili, at the University of Nairobi, Kenya. Her research interests revolve around language structure, language and cognition, language and culture and inter-relationships in languages. She has published in various volumes and journals, including:
International Journal of Language and Linguistics ,International Journal of Linguistics & Communication , andNilo-Saharan-Models and Descriptions .
Abstract
All human activity including motion is construed mentally with reference to different objects and spatial relations that are relevant (Waliński 2014). Following the work of Talmy (1985, 2000) on categorization of languages on the basis of motion events into verb framed languages and satellite framed languages, this paper addresses the typology of the Tugen language regarding motion events. It takes into consideration the reclassification of the V-languages into equipollent frame and the doubling frame, (Slobin 2003; Croft et al. 2010). Further it explores the hybrid system as expounded by Schröder (2016) on the categorization of V-languages so as to cater for languages that do not fit into the equipollent and the doubling frame. This paper analyses motion events in Tugen, a Kalenjin language belonging to the southern Nilotic cluster. In this analysis, Tugen is seen as both verb framed language and satellite framed as a result of prevalence of deictic directionals and the applicative. The language also bears an associated motion affix which relates simultaneous motion to non-motion events. The associated motion affix renders the motion events to be satellite framed. The occurrence of deictic directionals on motion events that are verb framed can also be taken to be instances of doubling frame.
About the author
Dr. Prisca Jerono is a lecturer at the Department of Kiswahili, at the University of Nairobi, Kenya. Her research interests revolve around language structure, language and cognition, language and culture and inter-relationships in languages. She has published in various volumes and journals, including: International Journal of Language and Linguistics, International Journal of Linguistics & Communication, and Nilo-Saharan-Models and Descriptions.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Editorial
- Typology of motion events in Tugen
- Setting the agenda in a distant nation: The 2016 US presidential election in a New Zealand newspaper
- Japanese intercultural communication hindrances in business environment: Case studies with Polish counterparts
- Hate online: The creation of the “Other”
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