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Space in languages : linguistic systems and cognitive categories / / edited by Maya Hickmann, Stéphane Robert
| Space in languages : linguistic systems and cognitive categories / / edited by Maya Hickmann, Stéphane Robert |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., c2006 |
| Descrizione fisica | viii, 361 p. : ill |
| Disciplina | 410.1 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
HickmannMaya
RobertStéphane |
| Collana | Typological studies in language |
| Soggetto topico |
Space and time in language
Typology (Linguistics) Cognition |
| ISBN |
1-282-15585-7
9786612155857 90-272-9355-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Space in Languages -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Space, language, and cognition -- 1. Why space? -- 2. Overview of book contents -- Universals, variability, and change -- The nature and uses of space in experience and in discourse -- Space, language, and cognition -- 3. Concluding remarks -- References -- I. Typology of linguistic systems: Universals, variability, and change -- Encoding the distinction between location, source and destination -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The situation in European languages -- 3. The question of typological generalizations -- 4. Systems of spatial adpositions or case affixes that do not mark the distinction between localization, source, and destination -- 5. Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- References -- The expression of static location in a typological perspective -- 1. Goal and outline -- 2. The framework -- 2.1. About functional typological linguistics -- 2.2. Some notions from the literature on space -- 2.3. Basic Locative Constructions -- 2.4. Looking beyond -- 3. About locative predicates in Amerindian languages -- 3.1. Inventory of forms found in Basic Locative Constructions -- 3.2. Posture verbs -- 3.3. The case of Kwakwala: Larger set of ``stems of location'' -- 3.4. Positionals -- 3.5. Conclusion -- 4. Satellites in Basic Locative Constructions -- 4.1. A field study of Basic Locative Constructions in Jakaltek Popti' (Mayan) -- 4.2. The existential copula -- 4.3. Inventory of Jakaltek-Popti' directionals -- 4.4. Basic Locative Constructions in Jakaltek Popti' -- 4.5. Same morphological material, different Basic Locative Constructions -- 5. Beyond Basic Locative Construction -- 5.1. Posture verbs in grammar and discourse -- 5.2. About positionals in Tzeltalan (Mayan) languages -- 5.3. About directionals in Q'anjob'alan (Mayan) languages.
6. Conclusions -- References -- What makes manner of motion salient? -- Manner expression and typologies of lexicalization patterns -- A revised typology -- Typology and manner salience -- Semantic constraints and processing load -- Lexical and morphemic availability -- Assessing manner salience -- Language use -- Size and diversity of manner-verb lexicon -- Cognitive consequences: Typological influences on mental imagery, memory, and attention -- Mental imagery -- Attention and memory -- Attention and learning -- Beyond typologies of lexicalization patterns -- Ideophones -- Posture verbs -- Conclusion -- References -- The semantic structure of motion verbs in French -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The typological framework -- 3. The satellite-framed pattern in French -- 3.1. French verbal prefixes as path satellites -- 3.2. The role of prefixes in the expression of motion -- 3.3. The variety of lexicalization patterns -- 4. The productivity of the satellite-framed pattern in French -- 4.1. The cline of morphological productivity -- 4.2. The cline of semantic transparency -- 5. The typological hybridization of French -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- From personal deixis to spatial deixis -- 1. The aim of this study -- 1.1. Evolution in the meaning of demonstratives -- 1.2. The semantic and morphological evolution of French demonstratives from Latin to Modern French -- 1.3. The different stages of our demonstration -- 2. The starting point: Latin -- 2.1. From the personal deictic to the anaphoric deictic in Latin -- 2.2. The `re-deictization' of Latin and Romance demonstratives -- 3. Demonstratives in Old French -- 3.1. The speaker's sphere: a pragmatic interpretation of deixis (9th-12th century) -- 3.2. Oppositions in meanings between CIST and CIL -- 3.3. Changes in Old French: The evolution of the `subjective' value to the `spatial' value (12th century). 3.4. The oldest contexts favorable to change -- 3.5. The birth of the `discursive deictic' in French -- 4. Conclusion: A semantic chain of evolution from `person' to `space'? Or a diachronic semantic cycle? -- References: Latin and Old French Texts -- References -- Motion events in Chinese -- Introduction -- 1. Talmy's dichotomy -- 2. Talmy's model revised: Slobin's trichotomy -- 3. Contemporary Chinese -- 4. Archaic Chinese (Classical Chinese) -- 5. Late Han - Six Dynasties period (1st-6th c. AD) -- 6. Late Medieval (Tang-Song times), 7th-13th c. -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- II. The nature and uses of space in language and discourse -- Are there spatial prepositions? -- Introduction -- 1. Relationship between dynamic, kinetic and static -- 2. Typology of states and actions in space -- 2.1. No dynamic exchange/static situations -- 2.2. No dynamic exchange/kinetic situations -- 2.3. Dynamic exchange/static situations -- 2.4. Dynamic exchange/kinetic situations -- 3. From spatial uses of prepositions to their whole distribution -- 3.1. Complex primitives -- 3.2. Logical diachrony -- References -- Deictic space in Wolof -- Introduction -- 1. Deixis in noun modifiers -- 1.1. The article: Definiteness and localization -- 1.2. The morpheme (-u): Spatial indeterminacy and syntactic dependency -- 1.3. From connective to relative clause and interrogation -- 1.4. Relative pronoun: From indefinite to definite -- 1.5. From space to time and to discursive space -- 2. Changing scale: Deixis in predication and in temporal subordinate clauses -- 2.1. Deixis and predication: Presence and absence, current events and negation -- 2.2. Temporal and hypothetical subordinate clauses -- 3. The pivotal role of the speech situation in language -- 3.1. The semantics of the deictic suffixes -- 3.2. Deixis and the pivotal role of situation of utterance in language. 3.3. The role and syntax of absence (and the syntactic scope of -u) -- Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- References -- The semantics of the motion verbs -- Introduction -- 1. The concept of motion verbs -- 2. Two theoretical frameworks -- 3. Towards a perceptive and praxeologic model -- 4. ``Constitution dynamics'' -- 4.1. Back to motion verbs -- 4.2. The case of `monter' and subjectivation -- 4.3. The inergative/inaccusative distinction -- Conclusion -- References -- The representation of spatial structure in spoken and signed language1 -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Fundamental space-structuring elements and categories in spoken language -- 2.1. The target of analysis -- 2.2. Determining the elements and categories -- 2.3. Sample categories and their member elements -- 2.4. Properties of the inventory -- 2.5. Basic elements assembled into whole schemas -- 2.6. Properties and processes applying to whole spatial schemas -- 3. Spatial structuring in signed language -- 3.1. In the inventory -- 3.2. In the expression -- 4. Cognitive implications of spoken / signed language differences -- 4.1. Where signed and spoken language are alike -- 4.2. Where spoken and signed language differ -- 4.3. A new neural model -- References -- Iconicity and space in French Sign Language -- Introduction -- 1. Proforms and transfers, rather than classifiers -- 1.1. A break with the traditional ``classifiers'' -- 1.2. Proforms and transfers -- 1.3. Examples of proforms in different contexts -- 2. Spatialisation constraints and narrative strategies -- 2.1. Figure and ground theory with transfers -- 2.2. Analysis of LSF narratives -- 3. Diagrammatic iconicity in the expression of space and time -- 3.1. Diagrammatic iconicity -- 3.2. Analysis of a sequence in LSF dealing with space and time -- 3.3. Discussion -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References. III. Space, language, and cognition -- On the very idea of a frame of reference1 -- Introduction -- 1. Generalizations of Molyneux's Question -- 2. Three kinds of frames of reference -- 3. The case of Tzeltal -- 4. A reconstruction of the neo-Whorfian argument -- 5. Four differences between perceptual and linguistic spatial representations -- 6. Perception and frames of reference -- 6.1. Intrinsic frames of reference -- 6.2. Absolute frames of reference -- 6.3. Relative frames of reference -- 7. Implicit frames of reference -- 8. The cross-modal flow of information -- 9. Conclusion -- References -- The relativity of motion in first language acquisition -- Introduction -- 1. Space in adult and child languages -- 1.1. Universals and linguistic relativity -- 1.2. Space in child language -- 2. Voluntary motion in French and in English -- 2.1. Method -- 2.2. Coding -- 2.3. Results -- 3. Discussion -- 3.1. Manner and path across child languages -- 3.2. Discourse factors and event properties -- 3.3. Lexicalization in French -- 3.4. Joint vs. disjoint information -- 3.5. General developmental changes -- 4. Concluding remarks -- Acknowledgments -- References -- APPENDIX Up/down-targets in study 1 -- Spatial language and spatial representation -- Introduction -- 1. Spatial language: What is to be acquired and how might it break down? -- 2. Previous findings and the Competence/Performance distinction -- 3. Sparing and deficit in two domains of spatial language -- 3.1. Case 1: The language of dynamic spatial events -- 3.2. Case 2: The language of static spatial relationships -- 4. Conclusions -- References -- Deficits in the spatial discourse of Alzheimer patients -- Introduction -- Study 1 - The production of route directions -- Study 2 - The description of urban scenes -- Study 3 - The production of route directions from maps or from memory -- Conclusions. Acknowledgements. |
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| Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., c2006 | ||
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