Motion, Direction and Location in Languages

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In honor of Zygmunt Frajzyngier

Erin Shay Uwe Seibert(Editor)

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Motion, Direction and Location in Languages
Editorial page
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DEDICATION
EDITORS' INTRODUCTION
References
Zygmunt Frajzyngier *April 3, 1938
ZYGMUNT FRAJZYNGIER'S CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE STUDY OF LANGUAGE STRUCTURE
Acknowledgement
Index
THE MYTH OF DOUBLY GOVERNING PREPOSITIONS IN GERMAN
1. Anecdote: German as a foreign language (DaF)
2. The phenomenon, the grammatical opinio communis, and first doubts about it
3. Semantically motivated syntax
3.1 The distributional shibboleth
3.2 The syntax of perfective predications
3.3 Valence decomposition
3.4 Redundancy and specific word syntax
4. Areal correlation for the alternation hin-auf ? auf-hin
5. Conclusion - and further implications
Notes
Abbreviations
References
LOCALISATION ET MOUVEMENT DANS LE SYNTAGME VERBAL DU GROUPE TCHADIQUE CENTRAL
1.Les morphèmes de dérivation
2.Les suffixations et leur position stable dans le syntagme verbal
3.Les suffixes locatifs et les fonctionnels
4.La comparaison des suffixes locatifs et directionnels
Notes
Abbréviations
Références
LEFT, RIGHT, AND THE CARDINAL DIRECTIONS SOME THOUGHTS ON CONSISTENCY AND USAGE
1. Introduction
2. Left and right
3. Cardinal directions
4. Conclusions
References
LOCATION AND DIRECTION IN KLAMATH
1. Spatial relations
1.1 Location and Direction
1.2 Location and direction in the Old World: Adpositions and their precursors
2. The Klamath solution
2.1 The Klamath language
2.1.1 Structural features of Klamath
2.1.2 Outline of the Klamath verb
2.2 The Lexical Prefixes
2.3 Location and direction in Klamath
2.3.1 LDS 's as stem elements
2.3.2 The semantic range of the LDS category
2.3.3 Argument structure of the LDS's
3. The origin and categorial status of the LDS category
3.1 Barker's analysis
3.2 Evidence for the verbal origin of the LDS's
3.2.1 Comparative Evidence
3.2.2.1 Conjugation classes
3.2.2.2 Reduplication
4. LDS's and English prepositions
Notes
Abbreviations
References
LOCATIVES AS CORE CONSTITUENTS
1. Core versus peripheral constituents
2. Some common ways of marking core versus peripheral roles
2.1 Head-marking strategies
2.2 Dependent-marking strategies
2.3 Double marking
2.4 Serial verb constructions
3. Thematic grid
Acknowledgement
Abbreviations
References
'COME' AND 'GO' AS DISCOURSE CONNECTORS IN KERA AND OTHER CHADIC LANGUAGES
1. Introduction
2. Patterns and functions in Kera
3. Deictic explicators
4. Expressing consequence and surprise
5. raw / raawe
6. Other Chadic languages
6.1 Margi
6.2 Mupun
Notes
References
ALTRILOCALITY IN TANGALEAND TUAREG: A COMMON HERITAGE FEATURE?
1. The altrilocal-ventive or distance stem
2. Hausa -oo /Mokilko -o & *-ad or *-an ?
3. Tangale -du / -na = Tuareg -du / -in ?
4. Conclusion
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Bibliography
LOCATION AND MOTION IN !XUN (NAMIBIA)
1. Introduction
2. Categories
2.1 Location
2.2 Motion
2.3. Derivational extensions
3. Chains
3.1 The noun-to-postposition chain
3.2 The verb-to-comparative chain
3.3 The verb-to-preposition chain
3.4 The verb-to-derivation chain
3.5 On the role of coverbs
4. Conclusions
Abbreviations
Notes
References
DIRECTIONALITY AND DISPLACED DIRECTIONALITY IN TOQABAQITA
1. Introduction
2. Historical, comparative and synchronic background
3. Directionality of physical motion through space
4. Directionality without physical motion
5. Displaced directionality
6. Other functions of the directionals
6.1 The venitive directional as an ingressive marker
6.2 The venitive directional as a marker of distance from the deictic center
6.3 The venitive directional as a continuative marker
6.4 The directionals used in noun phrases
7. Summary and conclusions
Abbreviations
Notes
References
MOTION, DIRECTION AND SPATIAL CONFIGURATION: A LEXICAL SEMANTIC STUDY OF'HANG' VERBS IN MANDARIN
1. Introduction
2. The data
3. Grammatical distribution and event structure
4. Locative inversion and conceptualization of spatial relation
5. Image schema and semantic attributes
6.Conclusion
Notes
References
CODING LOCATION, MOTION AND DIRECTION IN OLD BABYLONIAN AKKADIAN
1. Purpose of the paper
2. Location in Old Akkadian Babylonian
2.1 Location coded by case markers
2.1.1 The locative-adverbial case marker -urn
2.1.1.1 The locative-adverbial case with nouns
2.1.1.2 The locative-adverbial marker in adverb
2.1.2 Coding location by the terminative-adverbial case ending -is
2.1.3 Coding location by accusative
2.2 Coding location by prepositions
2.2.1 Simple prepositions
2.2.2 Complex prepositions
3. Motion in Old Babylonian Akkadian
4. Direction
4.1 Coding the goal of motion by prepositions
4.1.1 Simple prepositions
4.1.2 Complex prepositions
4.2 Coding the goal of motion by the terminative-adverbial marker -is
4.3 Coding the goal of motion by verb and ventive
5. Conclusions
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Notes
References
MOTIONEVENTS IN CHANTYAL
1. Introduction
2. Chantyal as a verb-framed language
2.1. Talmy's typology
2.2.Chantyal's place in Talmy's typology
3. Deviations from the verb-framed typology
3.1. Relative dearth of path verbs
3.2. Extensive use of directional satellites and case clitics
3.3. Elaboration of path
4. Summary and conclusion
Appendix: Typological Sketch of Chantyal
Abbreviations
Notes
References
LOCATIVE PREPOSITIONS IN CHADIC: LEXICAL OR GRAMMATICAL MORPHEMES
1. Introduction
2. Typology of predicate phrases with the locative constituent in Chadic
2.1 Predications coding the meaning 'to be in a place'
2.2 Predications with verbs of motion
2.2.1 Other predications with locative expressions
2.2.2 Nouns in the relational function (N/Rel)
2.2.3 Spatial prepositions (Prep/Spatial)
2.2.4 Locative Prepositions (Prep/Loc)
3. The role of the context in determining the use of locative markers
3.1 Inherently locative expressions vs. marked locative expressions
4. Grammaticalization vs. lexicalization in locative constructions of Chadic
5. Summary and conclusions
Notes
Abbreviations
References
TWO LAKHOTA LOCATIVES AND THE ROLE OF INTROSPECTION IN LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS
References
DIRECTIONAL VERBS IN JAPANESE
1. Verbs of coming and going
2. Verbs of coming and going in the conjunctive compound form
3. Verbs of going and coming as vectors
4. Kuru 'come' as an inverse marker
5. Verbs of giving
6. Benefactive applicatives
7 Conclusion
Notes
Abbreviations
References
L'ENCODAGE DE LA LOCALISATION,DE LA DIRECTION ET DU MOUVEMENT DANS LESLANGUES « KOTOKO » DU CAMEROUN
1.Introduction
2.Les catégories grammaticales en jeu
2.1 Lexémes
2.2Droite / gauche
2.3 Ici / là
2.4Adverbes et noms adverbialisés
2.5Morphèmes
2.6Prépositions
2.7Adverbe interrogatif
2.8Spécificateurs
2.9Postpositions
2.10Pronoms locatifs
2.11 Copule locative
3.Structures syntaxiques où s'exprime la localisation
3.1L'énoncé non verbal sans copule
3.2L'énoncé non verbal avec copule
4.Structures syntaxiques où s'exprime la direction
4.1L'énoncé verbal avec 'aller'/'partir'
4.2L'énoncé verbal avec un verbe [+déplacement orienté]
4.3L'énoncé verbal avec un verbe [-déplacement]
4.4L'énoncé verbal à circonstant obligatoire
5.Structures syntaxiques où s'exprime le mouvement centripète
5.1L'énoncé verbal avec morphème centripète
Notes
Abréviations
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