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Source-Goal (in)difference and the typology of motion events in the clause
Starting from the clause, the functional domain of motion events with the three loci Verbal, Adnominal, and Adverbal, the paper investigates various grammatical and lexical means of expression for the encoding of the local roles Source and Goal in a sample of 117 languages and in more detail in one language with grammatically indifferent Source-Goal encoding, Mapudungun...
Keywords: motion events, local roles, Source marking, Source-Goal distinction, areal typology
03/2006 | STUF – Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, Akademie VerlagMetaphor meets typology: Ways of moving metaphorically in English and Turkish
Earlier work on literal motion has shown that English and Turkish belong to typologically distinct classes of languages, with English speakers paying greater linguistic attention to the manner dimension of motion events (e.g., Özçali?kan and Slobin 1999a, 2003)...
Keywords: motion events, metaphorical motion, verb-framed typology, satellite-framed typology, manner of motion
02/2005 | Cognitive Linguistics, Walter de GruyterAdvantages and disadvantages of using parallel texts in typological investigations
In this paper, advantages and disadvantages of using parallel texts in typological studies are considered according to the criteria of diversity, domains, analysis, per-spective, quality, representativity, and comparability...
Keywords: parallel texts, motion events, multi-verb constructions, comparative constructions, quantitative variables
02/2007 | STUF – Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, Akademie Verlag