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1 online resource |
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Human cognitive processing, 1387-6724 ; v. 41 |
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Human cognitive processing ; v. 41
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Introduction -- Variation. Beyond typology : the encoding of motion events across time and varieties / Juliana Goschler and Anatol Stefanowitsch -- Variation -- Typology as a continuum : intratypological evidence from English and Serbo-Croatian / Luna Filipovic -- Same family, different paths : intratypological differences in three Romance languages / Alberto Hijazo-Gascón and Iraide Ibarretxe-Antunano -- Disentangling manner and path : evidence from varieties of German and Romance / Raphael Berthele -- The encoding of motion events : building typology bottom-up from text data in many languages / Bernhard Wälchli and Arnd Sölling -- Motion events in Turkish-German contact varieties / Juliana Goschler -- Variation in the categorization of motion events by Danish, German, Turkish, and L2 Danish speakers / Moiken Jessen and Teresa Cadierno -- Change. Describing motion events in Old and Modern French : discourse effects of a typological change / Anetta Kopecka -- Lexical splits in the encoding of motion events from Archaic to Classical Greek / Tatiana Nikitina -- Caused-motion verbs in the Middle English intransitive motion construction / Judith Huber -- Variation and change in English path verbs and constructions : usage patterns and conceptual structure / Anatol Stefanowitsch |
| Summary |
English is classified as a satellite-framed language with manner-conflating verbs, but it also has a substantial number of (usually Romance) pathconflating verbs that are used transitively with a locative direct object. In this chapter, I address two aspects of these verbs. Using the case of enter, I show how they are initially used in the satellite-framed English motion construction, leading to a double encoding of the path, and are then integrated into the transitive pattern in order to avoid semantic conflicts within the motion construction. I also show how the use of enter in the motion co |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
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Motion in language.
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Language and languages -- Variation.
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Linguistic change.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- General.
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Language and languages -- Variation
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Linguistic change
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Motion in language
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Goschler, Juliana, 1977- editor.
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Stefanowitsch, Anatol, 1970- editor.
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| ISBN |
9789027270948 |
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9027270945 |
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