Talking about motion: a crosslinguistic investigation of lexicalization patterns

This is a corpus-based study of lexicalization of motion events in Serbo-Croatian and English, with contrasting examples from Spanish, French, Italian, Mandarin Chinese and Albanian. Talmy's typology (1985) provides the backdrop for the analysis and the focus is on intratypological differences...

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Beteilige Person: Filipović, Luna ca. 20./21. Jh (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam John Benjamins Publishing [2007]
Schriftenreihe:Studies in language companion series volume 91
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https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.91
https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.91
Zusammenfassung:This is a corpus-based study of lexicalization of motion events in Serbo-Croatian and English, with contrasting examples from Spanish, French, Italian, Mandarin Chinese and Albanian. Talmy's typology (1985) provides the backdrop for the analysis and the focus is on intratypological differences that affect habitual presence or absence of information in motion expressions crosslinguistically as well as "pattern clashing" in translation. This fresh look at issues regarding linguistic typology, lexical and construction meaning and spatio-temporal construals in language and experience results in a
Umfang:1 Online-Ressource (viii, 182 Seiten)
ISBN:9789027291226
DOI:10.1075/slcs.91