"Human languages exhibit fascinating commonalities and variations in the ways they describe motion events. In this volume, the contributors present their research results concerning motion event descriptions in the languages that they investigate. The volume features new proposals based on a broad range of data involving different kinds of motion events previously understudied, such as caused motion (e.g., kick a ball across) and even visual motion (e.g., look into a hole). Special attention is also paid to deixis, a hitherto neglected aspect of motion event descriptions. A wide range of languages is examined, including those spoken in Europe, Africa, and Asia. The results provide new insights into the patterns languages deploy to represent motion events. This volume will appeal to anyone interested in language universals and typology, as well as the relationship between language and thought"--.

• Broader Perspectives on Motion Event Descriptions
• Editorial page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Table of contents
• Preface
• Introduction. Motion event descriptions in broader perspective
  • 1. General statement
  • 2. Talmy’s motion typology
    • 2.1 Overview of Talmy’s motion typology
    • 2.2 Questions and extensions
  • 3. Broader perspectives
    • 3.1 Types of motion event descriptions
    • 3.2 Deixis
    • 3.3 Types of Manner
  • 4. The chapters in this volume
  • References
• Part I. Path and Deixis in individual languages
• Chapter 1. Distinct coding of Deixis and Path in Kathmandu Newar
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Deixis and Path in previous literature
  • 3. Motion expressions in Kathmandu Newar
    • 3.1 Deixis and path markers
    • 3.2 Self-motion
    • 3.3 Caused motion
    • 3.4 More on path adverbs
  • 4. Discussion
  • 5. Concluding remarks
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations
  • References
  • Funding information
• Chapter 2. Patterns of deictic expressions in Hungarian motion event descriptions
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Basic facts of Hungarian and its motion event descriptions
    • 2.1 Morpho-syntactic characteristics of Hungarian
    • 2.2 Elements relevant to motion event descriptions
  • 3. Semantic/pragmatic properties of each deictic expression
    • 3.1 Aspectual properties: Preverb and adverb
    • 3.2 The speaker’s domain: Verb vs. others
  • 4. Competition between Deixis and Manner/Path
    • 4.1 Self-motion
    • 4.2 Caused motion
    • 4.3 Fictive motion of vision
  • 5. Conclusion
  • Abbreviations
  • References
• Chapter 3. Patterns of path encoding in German
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Motion, path, and satellites
  • 3. Deictic viewpoint
  • 4. Aspectual viewpoint
    • 4.1 Summativity
    • 4.2 Plexity
    • 4.3 Boundedness
    • 4.4 Mutativity
    • 4.5 A classification of path and aspectual properties
  • 5. Path classification and deixis
    • 5.1 Source and intended goal: Orientational paths
    • 5.2 Path of incomplete traversal
    • 5.3 Path of complete traversal
    • 5.4 Boundary traversing path
    • 5.5 Achieved goal: Destination path
    • 5.6 Trajective
    • 5.7 A classification of deictic path
  • 6. Types of motion
    • 6.1 Causative motion
    • 6.2 Fictive motion
    • 6.3 Discussion
  • 7. Conclusions and perspectives
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • Appendix. Corpus details
• Chapter 4. Syntactic and semantic structures of Thai motion expressions
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Thai motion expressions: General descriptions
    • 2.1 Review of previous studies
    • 2.2 Typical examples
  • 3. Syntactic and semantic structures of Thai motion expressions
    • 3.1 Thai verbs of motion
    • 3.2 Syntactic patterns of Thai motion expressions
    • 3.3 Acceptable vs. unacceptable linear order
  • 4. The nature of path-related morphemes in Thai
    • 4.1 Verbs vs. prepositions
    • 4.2 Verbs and satellites
  • 5. Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations
  • References
  • Funding information
• Part II. Crosslinguistic and theoretical studies
• Chapter 5. A fine-grained analysis of manner salience: Experimental evidence from Japanese and English
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The typology of manner expressions
    • 2.1 Manner
    • 2.2 Manner salience
    • 2.3 Types of manner expressions
  • 3. Experiment 1: Frog stories
    • 3.1 Method
    • 3.2 Results
    • 3.3 Discussion
  • 4. Experiment 2: Motion with sounds
    • 4.1 Method
    • 4.2 Results
    • 4.3 Discussion
  • 5. Typological implications
  • 6. Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations
  • References
  • Funding information
• Chapter 6. Attraction of attention in perceived motion events weighed against typology and cognitive cost: An experimental study of French
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. French motion event descriptions
    • 2.1 Constructional variation in French motion descriptions
    • 2.2 Talmy’s principles and the different frequencies of optional syntactic elements
  • 3. Experiment and analyses
    • 3.1 Method
    • 3.2 Results
  • 4. Discussion
    • 4.1 Constructional variation
    • 4.2 Different frequencies of the main verb and optional syntactic elements
  • 5. Conclusion
  • References
• Chapter 7. Should Talmy’s motion typology be expanded to visual motion?: An investigation into expressions of motion, agentive motion, and visual motion in Sidaama (Sidamo)
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Literature review
  • 3. Data
    • 3.1 Profile of Sidaama and morphemes used for motion events
    • 3.2 Multiple-verb constructions in Sidaama
    • 3.3 Patterns of expressing self-agentive/non-agentive motion and agentive motion events in Sidaama
    • 3.4 Patterns of expressing visual emanation events in Sidaama
  • 4. Analysis and discussion
    • 4.1 Can visual emanation be conceptualized as a macro-event?
    • 4.2 Another type of case where V-languages can deviate from their characteristic pattern
    • 4.3 Types of cases where Sidaama can deviate from the V-language pattern
  • 5. Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations
  • References
  • Funding information
• Chapter 8. Looking into visual motion expressions in Dutch, English, and French: How languages stick to well-trodden typological paths
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. What is visual motion, and how fictive is it?
  • 3. Hypotheses and predictions
    • 3.1 Rationale
    • 3.2 Specific hypotheses and predictions
    • 3.3 Interim summary
  • 4. Method
    • 4.1 The corpus
    • 4.2 Data
  • 5. Results
    • 5.1 Visual motion in Dutch: Parallels with physical motion
    • 5.2 Path of vision in French: Still some verb-framing devices
    • 5.3 Manner-of-vision verbs and verb-external paths of vision: Partially confirmed typology-based predictions
  • 6. Discussion
  • 7. Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • Appendix. Visual motion events in Roald Dahl’s The Witches
• Chapter 9. Neutral and specialized path coding: Toward a new typology of path-coding devices and languages
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Toward a new typology
    • 2.1 Constructional types of motion event representations
    • 2.2 Types of path-coding devices
    • 2.3 Types of languages
  • 3. The status of so-called equipollently framed languages
    • 3.1 Jaminjung and Klamath
    • 3.2 Thai and other languages with multiple verb constructions
  • 4. Variations of path coding within and across languages
    • 4.1 Variation according to the type of Path
    • 4.2 Variation according to the type of representation
    • 4.3 Gradience based on a two-way opposition
  • 5. Coding of Deixis
    • 5.1 Independence of Deixis
    • 5.2 Neutral and specialized coding for Deixis
  • 6. Concluding remarks
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations
  • References
• Name index
• Subject index