Broader perspectives on motion event descriptions
"Human languages exhibit fascinating commonalities and variations in the ways they describe motion events. In this volume, the contributors present their research results concerning motion event descriptions in the languages that they investigate. The volume features new proposals based on a br...
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| Format: | Conference Proceeding eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
[2020]
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| Series: | Human cognitive processing ;
v. 69. |
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| Online Access: | EBSCOhost Перейти в каталог НБ ТГУ |
| Summary: | "Human languages exhibit fascinating commonalities and variations in the ways they describe motion events. In this volume, the contributors present their research results concerning motion event descriptions in the languages that they investigate. The volume features new proposals based on a broad range of data involving different kinds of motion events previously understudied, such as caused motion (e.g., kick a ball across) and even visual motion (e.g., look into a hole). Special attention is also paid to deixis, a hitherto neglected aspect of motion event descriptions. A wide range of languages is examined, including those spoken in Europe, Africa, and Asia. The results provide new insights into the patterns languages deploy to represent motion events. This volume will appeal to anyone interested in language universals and typology, as well as the relationship between language and thought"-- |
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| Item Description: | Chiefly a collection of papers presented at the 11th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, held July11-16, 2011, in Xi'an, China. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vi, 324 pages) illustrations (some color). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9027261067 9789027261069 |
| ISSN: | 1387-6724 ; |