Path: Ways Typology has Walked Through it

Imbert, Caroline

doi:10.1002/lnc3.329

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“…"Path" is used in this paper as in Talmy (1985Talmy ( , 1991Talmy ( , 2000 and after the works of the "Trajectory" Project -cf. a state-of-the-art in Imbert (2012) and collaborative works such as Grinevald (2011), Imbert, Grinevald, and Söres (2011), Fortis and Vittrant (2011). The notion of Path was further detailed in the literature and given terminological extensions.…”

Section: Pathmentioning

confidence: 99%

Morpheme Order Constraints Upside Down: Verticality and Other Directions

Imbert¹

2013

BLS

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In lieu of an abstract, here is an excerpt:This paper addresses a selection of languages which exhibits morphosyntactic structures that formally have little in common: Burmese and Arakanese (Tibeto-Burmese), Popti’ (Mayan), Homeric Greek (Indo-European) and Mandarin Chinese (Sinitic). However, they all seem to organize the surface order of their Path-encoding elements according to two conceptual distinctions: (a) the Axiality or non-Axiality of Path, and (b) Deixis.

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Section: Pathmentioning

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Morpheme Order Constraints Upside Down: Verticality and Other Directions

Imbert¹

2013

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“…Beavers, Levin, and Tham 2010;Croft et al 2010). A second problem is that the structural category "satellite" has proven controversial: does it only include verbal prefixes and post-verbal particles, in a "sister relation to the verb root" (Talmy 1985, 102) as originally defined, or does it also include prepositions, and other constituents (Imbert 2012)? Or should it rather be defined in more functional and relational terms (Fortis and Vittrant 2016)?…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In short, there is too much "type-internal", and even language-internal, variation to be accommodated by a discrete binary typology such as that proposed by Talmy. Finally, and arguably most problematic for the model, there have been multiple observations that the key conceptual/semantic categories on the basis of which the typology is defined, such as Path, Manner and Motion itself, lack clear definitions (Blomberg 2014;Imbert 2012;Zlatev, Blomberg, and David 2010).…”

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Motion event descriptions in Swedish, French, Thai and Telugu: a study in post-Talmian motion event typology

Zlatev

Blomberg

Devylder

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Acta Linguistica Hafniensia

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Motion-event typology has moved into a "post-Talmian" terrain of approaches focusing on an open-ended number of patterns across languages and constructions. Following a proposal to distinguish between four typological clusters, we systematically compared the motion event descriptions in four languages suggested to exemplify these clusters: Swedish, French, Thai and Telugu, with the help of an elicitation-based study. 20 adult native speakers of each language were asked to describe 52 motion events, 38 of which were translocative. The stimuli varied with respect to the parameters caused/uncaused, bounded/ unbounded motion as well as the viewpoint from which they were filmed. The descriptions were analyzed following Holistic Spatial Semantics and compared with respect to the categories Path, Direction, Region, Landmark, Manner and Cause, as well as the means of expressing these. The four languages patterned differently in significant ways. In terms of Path expression, French lagged behind the other languages, but with respect to Direction, it patterned together with Swedish. We demonstrate a number of such criss-crossing patterns, showing that there is no way to group the languages, thus implying at least four distinct typological prototypes. Further, we show that different kinds of motion situations, corresponding to different constructions, need to be compared separately.

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“…All in all, the research is opting for a framework where dichotomies are replaced by gradients where languages are defined by the degree of salience they afford for the different elements encoding Manner or Path (cf. Imbert, 2012;Ibarretxe-Antuñano, 2009;Filipović & Ibarretxe-Antuñano, 2015).…”

Section: Typologymentioning

confidence: 98%

Applying Cognitive Linguistics

Piquer-Píriz¹,

González²

2016

RCL

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In recent years, Cognitive Linguistics (CL) has established itself not only as a solid theoretical approach but also as an important source from which different applications to other fields have emerged. In this introductory article, we explore some of the current, most relevant topics in applied CL-oriented studies grouped into three main strands: Analyses of figurative language (both metaphor and metonymy) in use, constructions and typology. An outline of the contents of the eight chapters included in this special issue is provided, explaining their contributions to these research areas and highlighting their methodological rigour.

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Path: Ways Typology has Walked Through it

Cited by 15 publications

References 40 publications

Morpheme Order Constraints Upside Down: Verticality and Other Directions

Morpheme Order Constraints Upside Down: Verticality and Other Directions

Motion event descriptions in Swedish, French, Thai and Telugu: a study in post-Talmian motion event typology

Applying Cognitive Linguistics

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