"The idea of this book on "Neglected Aspects of Motion Event Descriptions" comes from the observation that, over the last 30 years, much attention has been devoted to the manner/path divide in relation to the distinction between Verb-Framed and Satellite-Framed languages. This mainstream focus has left aside other aspects of motion event descriptions. The chapters of this volume take an in-depth look at three less-studied aspects of motion expression. The first part of the book focusses on directional deixis, especially in relation to associated motion and visual motion. The second part explores variations in Source-Goal asymmetries. The third part investigates different types of motion event constructions, e.g., with various types of co-events. Many languages are taken into consideration throughout the 11 chapters, which gives the volume a clear typological dimension. This book is intended for students and academics interested in motion, spatial semantics, typological variation and cognitive linguistics"--.

• Neglected Aspects of Motion-Event Description
• Editorial page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Table of contents
• Foreword
• Chapter 1. Introduction: The description of motion events: On deixis, asymmetries and constructions
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Motion and deixis
  • 3. Motion and asymmetries
  • 4. Motion and constructions
  • References
• Part I. Motion and deixis
• Chapter 3. Linguistic representations of visual motion: A crosslinguistic experimental study
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Issues in the representations of visual motion
  • 3. Experiment and the languages examined
  • 4. Results and discussion
  • 5. Conclusion
  • Acknowledgement
  • Funding
  • Abbreviations
  • References
• Chapter 4. Deictic directionals revisited in the light of advances in typology
  • 1. Introduction: Understudied aspects of dynamic deixis
  • 2. Deictic orientation and deictic directionals
  • 3. Associated motion and deictic orientation
  • 4. Discussion of a few specific issues related to AM
  • 5. To conclude: Some perspectives for further research
  • Acknowledgements
  • Funding
  • Abbreviations used in the glosses
  • References
• Chapter 5. On a few instances where deictic directionals confound expectations
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Towards a working definition of directional deixis
  • 3. Directional deixis as against other categories of deixis
  • 4. Some design features of systems encoding directional deixis: Canonicity and exceptionality
  • 5. Exceptional targeting in Somali, Uduk and Gumuz
  • 6. Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
• Part II. Motion and asymmetries
• Chapter 6. Implicit landmarks and opposite polarities in French motion predicates
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Intransitive verbs of change of relation and placement: Spatio-temporal classification
  • 3. Categories of verbs and the implicit landmark construction
  • 4. Predicting implicit uses: Main conditions and beyond
  • 5. Verbs and PPs with opposite polarities: The role of implicitness
  • 6. Conclusion: Implicit landmarks, opposite polarities and asymmetry of motion
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
• Chapter 7. Source-Goal asymmetry in Standard Chinese: A comparative study of spontaneous and caused motion events
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Morphosyntactic resources available in Standard Chinese for Path encoding
  • 3. Methodology: Elicitation tools, speakers, and data
  • 4. The encoding of Source-oriented Path, Goal-oriented Path and Source-Goal-oriented Path
  • 5. Source–Goal asymmetries in stimuli data of Standard Chinese
  • 6. Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • Funding
  • Abbreviations in example glosses
  • References
  • Appendix 1. Simple Path events (8 clips showing Source-oriented Path and 8 clips showing Goal-oriented Path) selected from Trajectoire stimuli
  • Appendix 2. Simple Path events (22 clips showing Source-oriented Path and 22 clips showing Goal-oriented Path) selected from Put and Take stimuli
  • Appendix 3. Complex Path events (5 clips showing Source-Goal-oriented Path) selected from Trajectoire stimuli
  • Appendix 4. Complex Path events (3 clips showing Source-Goal-oriented Path) selected from Put and Take stimuli
• Chapter 8. Source–Goal asymmetry in German: A corpus study comparing intentional and non-intentional motion events
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The granularity of lexicalization patterns in German
  • 3. Present study: Frequency of encoding source, route and goal paths
  • 4. Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
• Part III. Motion and constructions
• Chapter 9. Co-event relations in Swedish motion constructions
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Motion events in Swedish
  • 3. Motion events as motion constructions
  • 4. Co-event relations
  • 5. Final remarks
  • Abbreviations
  • References
• Chapter 10. The description of transitive directed motion in Lakhota (Siouan)
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Semantic parameters of transitive directed motion
  • 3. General properties of Lakhota
  • 4. The expression of (transitive) directed motion in Lakhota
  • 5. Instrumental prefixes
  • 6. The composition of causation, manner, and deictic motion
  • 7. Typological perspectives
  • Acknowledgements
  • Funding
  • Abbreviations
  • References
• Chapter 11. Constraints constrained: Equipollent verb constructions in Emai
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Basic motion
  • 3. Complex motion
  • 4. Discussion
  • Acknowledgements
  • Funding
  • Abbreviations
  • References
  • Appendix
• Chapter 12. Lexical aspect and morphosyntactic cohesion between motion verbs and spatial particles in Homeric Greek: Lexical aspect and morphosyntactic cohesion between motion verbs and spatial particles in Homeric Greek
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The objects of the analysis
  • 3. Textual analysis
  • 4. Conclusion
  • References
• Language index
• Subject index