Space and Time in Languages and Cultures

Editors and contributors

Foreword: Space and time in languages, cultures, and cognition

Introduction: Linguistic diversity in the spatio-temporal domain
Luna Filipovic and Kasia M. Jaszczolt

I. Representing location in space and time

1. Spatial relations in Hinuq and Bezhta
Diana Forker

2. Pragmatically disambiguating space: Experimental and cross-linguistic evidence
Didier Maillat

3. The semantics of the perfect progressive in English
Keith Allan

4. Drowning "into" the river in North Sámi: Uses of the illative
Peter Svenonius

5. Cross-linguistic differences in expressing time and universal principles of utterance interpretation
Kasia M. Jaszczolt

6. Modelling temporal reasoning: Aspectual interaction in determiners, adverbs, and dialogue
Alice ter Meulen

7. Language-specific perspectives in reference to time in the discourse of Czech, English, and Hungarian speakers
Norbert Vanek

8. More than "time": The grammaticalisation of the German tense system and 'frame of reference' as a crucial interface between space and time
Sonja Zeman

II. Space and time in language acquisition

9. L2 acquisition of tense-aspect morphology: Lexical aspect, morphological regularity, and transfer
Ho Leung Chan, Jessica Finberg, Willie Costello and Yasuhiro Shirai

10. Motion events in Japanese and English: Does learning a second language change the way you view the world?
Zoe Pei-sui Luk

11. 'He walked up the pole with arms and legs': Typology in second language acquisition
Ivana Vidakovic

12. Caused motion events across languages and learner types: A comparison of bilingual first and adult second language acquisition
Helen Engemann, Anne-Katharina Harr (née Ochsenbauer) and Maya Hickmann

13. Spatial prepositions in Italian L2: Universal and language-specific principles
Giovanna Marotta and Linda Meini

14. Expressing simultaneity using aspect: A comparison of oral productions in French L1, Tunisian Arabic L1, and French L2 by Tunisian learners
Inès Saddour

III. Dynamic relations in space and time domains

15. Variation in motion events: Theory and applications
Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano and Alberto Hijazo-Gascón

16. Italian motion constructions: Different functions of 'particles'
Monica Mosca

17. A temporal approach to motion verbs: 'Come' and 'go' in English and East Asian languages
Yumiko Nishi

18. The role of grammar in the conceptualisation of 'progression': A comparative analysis of Dutch and Japanese event descriptions
Keiko Yoshioka and Béryl Hilberink-Schulpen

19. The locative PP motion construction in Polish: A third lexicalisation pattern?
Wojciech Lewandowski

20. Path salience in motion descriptions in Jaminjung
Dorothea Hoffmann

Contents of the companion volume: Language, culture, and cognition

Name index

Subject index

Language index