Motion Event Descriptions from a Cross-Linguistic Perspective - Volume 1: Case Studies of Linguistic Representations of Motion

How languages describe spatial motion events has been a hotly discussed topic in recent years in cognitive linguistics and linguistic typology. This two-volume book provides new descriptions and proposals on this fascinating topic, based on a large-scale experimental study of motion event descriptions in almost 20 languages across the globe as part of a research project conducted by NINJAL. The chapters are based on papers presented at international conferences (most at NINJAL international symposium held in January 2019, some at International Cognitive Linguistics Conferences in 2017 and 2019). This volume provides valuable descriptions of familiar and unfamiliar languages as well as insightful discussions of controversial issues based on those descriptions. This book would interest students in linguistics and cognitive science in Asia-Pacific, Europe and North America.

About the author

Yo Matsumoto, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (NINJAL), Tokyo, Japan.

Summary

How languages describe spatial motion events has been a hotly discussed topic in recent years in cognitive linguistics and linguistic typology. This two-volume book provides new descriptions and proposals on this fascinating topic, based on a large-scale experimental study of motion event descriptions in almost 20 languages across the globe as part of a research project conducted by NINJAL. The chapters are based on papers presented at international conferences (most at NINJAL international symposium held in January 2019, some at International Cognitive Linguistics Conferences in 2017 and 2019). This volume provides valuable descriptions of familiar and unfamiliar languages as well as insightful discussions of controversial issues based on those descriptions. This book would interest students in linguistics and cognitive science in Asia-Pacific, Europe and North America.

Product details

• Assisted by: Y Matsumoto (Editor), Yo Matsumoto (Editor)
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2025
• EAN: 9783110690828
• ISBN: 978-3-11-069082-8
• No. of pages: 787
• Dimensions: 168 mm x 46 mm x 235 mm
• Weight: 1230 g
• Illustrations: 28 b/w and 220 col. ill., 113 b/w tbl.
• Sets: Motion Event Descriptions from a Cross-Linguistic Perspective; Motion Event Descriptions Across Languages
• Series: ISSN; The Mouton-NINJAL Library of Linguistics [MNLL]; The Mouton-NINJAL Library of Linguistics; Motion Event Descriptions Across Languages
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Englisch, Linguistics, Sprachtypologie, Psycholinguistics, Typology, Semantics & pragmatics, Sprachbeschreibung, Motion Events, NINJAL, Language Description