3 The encoding of motion events in Estonian

Pajusalu, Renate; Kahusk, Neeme; Orav, Heili; Veismann, Ann; Vider, Kadri; Õim, Haldur

doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199661213.003.0003

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“…This suggestion is supported by the fact that across all conditions, Location and Trajectory were rarely mentioned, which does not reflect the general tendencies of describing space as measured in corpus studies (e.g. Pajusalu et al 2013, Taremaa 2017, Taremaa & Kopecka 2023.…”

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“…Estonian is a satellite-framed language that exhibits a large set of manner verbs and expresses manner-related information frequently and in a nuanced way (Pajusalu et al 2013, Taremaa 2017, Taremaa & Kopecka 2022. This suggests that along the cline of manner salience (Slobin 2004(Slobin , 2006, Estonian can potentially be situated amongst the languages that are highly manner-salient.…”

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“…Structurally, it is very similar to Finnish in terms of its morphosyntactic richness (for a general overview of Estonian, see Erelt 2003; for more detailed accounts of Estonian, see Tauli 1973, 1983, Erelt & Metslang 2017, Viht & Habicht 2019. In terms of its typological profile in Talmy's (2000b) sense, it is a prime example of a satellite-framed language (Pajusalu et al 2013).…”

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Speed as a dimension of manner in Estonian frog stories

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Focusing on the expression of manner and path in the ‘frog story’ narrations of Estonian native speakers, this study shows that Estonian – a morphologically rich satellite-framed Finno-Ugric language – is characterised by high manner and high path salience. Furthermore, when analysing one of the core qualities of manner – speed – we show that when the participants were asked to narrate a story as if the events developed slowly, they also spoke slowly and their stories tended to be long (both in time duration and word count) and include many details. When they were asked to tell the story as if the events developed fast, they also spoke faster and used more verbs of caused motion and verbs of vertical motion. Thus, the speed of motion in the physical world seems to be mimicked by speech rate, indicating mental simulation and iconic prosody. The exact nature of speed effects in linguistic choices for expressing motion remains to be studied in future works.

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Speed as a dimension of manner in Estonian frog stories

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“…There are only a few prepositions in Estonian, which means that a common way to express Motion is by using locative postpositions (see, e.g., Pajusalu et al 2013, Taremaa 2013. Such postpositions include words like alla, all, sisse, sees etc., as in (16)-(19), and their NP complement has to occur in the genitive (Erelt et al 1993: 68-69;76 (26) She is going up the steps and he is coming down the steps.…”

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Acquisition of motion in L2 Estonian

Nelis

Miljan

2016

ERYa

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This study focuses on the acquisition of Motion in Estonian by native English speakers. The aim was to determine how English learners of Estonian are influenced by their first language (L1) when describing Motion events in Estonian as their second language (L2). Prior studies have claimed that people develop certain ways of thinking for speaking when learning their first language which affect the acquisition of other languages (e.g. Slobin 1996, Pool, Pajusalu 2012 i.a.). In order to find out how native English speakers are influenced by their L1 when acquiring Motion in Estonian, an experiment was implemented on 22 participants (11 native English speakers and 11 native Estonian speakers) in which they were asked to write a short narrative in Estonian based on a picture book by Mayer (1969). The Motion events found in the narratives were analysed one by one. The findings suggest that L1 thinking patterns influence the intermediate learners more than the advanced or beginner learners, thus partly supporting the findings of Cadierno and Ruiz (2006) who reached a similar conclusion.

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Speed and space: semantic asymmetries in motion descriptions in Estonian

Taremaa

Kopecka

2022

Cognitive Linguistics

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In this study, we investigate the expression of speed—one of the principal dimensions of manner—in relation to the expression of space in Estonian, a satellite-framed and morphology-rich language. Our multivariate and extensive corpus analysis is informed by asymmetries attested in languages with regard to expressing space (the goal-over-source bias) and speed (the fast-over-slow bias) where we attempt to explicitly link the two. We demonstrate moderate speed effects in the data in that fast motion verbs tend to combine with Goal, and slow motion verbs with Location and Trajectory expressions, making verbs of fast motion similar to goal verbs in their clausal behaviour. We also show that semantic congruency (i.e., expressing semantic information repeatedly in motion clauses) overrides the goal-over-source bias. That is, although verbs also occur in diverse patterns, they often combine with semantic units that mirror their meaning: goal verbs tend to combine with Goal, source verbs with Source, and manner verbs with Manner expressions. Such semantic congruency might serve as a tool for construal and, thus, is an important issue for future research.

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3 The encoding of motion events in Estonian

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Speed as a dimension of manner in Estonian frog stories

Speed as a dimension of manner in Estonian frog stories

Acquisition of motion in L2 Estonian

Speed and space: semantic asymmetries in motion descriptions in Estonian

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