Motion Encoding in Language and Space
1st Edition
Published on 1. November 2012
250 pages
978-0-19-163715-5 (ISBN)
Description
This book brings together researchers in linguistics, computer science, psychology and cognitive science to investigate how motion is encoded in language. Part I considers the parameters of the field, while part II looks at the way in which spatial scale or granularity plays a role in the encoding of motion in language.
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Mila Vulchanova | Emile van der Zee
Motion Encoding in Language and Space
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11/2012
Oxford University Press
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Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- The Contributors
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- Part 1: Motion encoding across languages: multiple methods and applications
- 2 Distinctions in the linguistic encoding of motion: evidence from a free naming task
- 3 The encoding of motion events in Estonian
- 4 Verbs of aquamotion: semantic domains and lexical systems
- 5 Spatial directionals for robot navigation
- 6 The role of structure and function in the conceptualization of direction
- Part 2: Granularity
- 7 Granularity in taxonomy, time, and space
- 8 Granularity in the cross-linguistic encoding of motion and location
- 9 Granularity, space, and motion-framed location
- 10 Path and place: the lexical specification of granular compatibility
- 11 The lexical representation of path curvature in motion expressions: a three-way path curvature distinction
- References
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- R
- S
- T
- V
