Recent advances in the study of motion in French

Aurnague, Michel; Stošić, Dejan

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“…Le cortège des cheminots est allé de la gare à la Préfecture. (France Bleu) Path: this is a difficult concept to define and is understood in many ways by different linguists (Aurnague and Stosic, 2019). For the purposes of the current study I will understand Path in a spatial sense, as the connection between two points in a motion event (Evans and Tyler, 2004).…”

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“…Ground: the reference entity or entities in relation to which the Figure's motion takes place. This is encoded by la gare and la Préfecture.Path: this is a difficult concept to define and is understood in many ways by different linguists(Aurnague and Stosic, 2019). For the purposes of the current study I will understand Path in a spatial sense, as the connection between two…”

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Expressing prospective location in French: rethinking Vandeloise’s ‘principle of anticipation’

Tutton

2021

French Language Studies

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Vandeloise’s (1987, 2017) principle of anticipation proposes that French verbs of motion can enable prospective readings of static locative prepositions. However, it has little to say about verbs of motion that do not have a prospective verbal reference place (VRP): that is, to what extent are verbs of initial polarity like partir and s’enfuir able to trigger prospective readings of prepositions? This article argues that each verb must be analysed individually and that prospective readings of prepositions depend on the interaction of verbal and prepositional semantics: for example, the movement away from a viewer expressed by partir favours a prospective reading of derrière but not of devant: this is due to differences regarding access to perception. The animacy of the Ground and its status as a material or spatial entity (Vandeloise, 2017) is also a key factor (e.g. partir près de + spatial entity). This suggests that verbs of initial polarity participate in synergistic verb/preposition/Ground interpretations that help to overcome their lack of a VRP. The prospective reading of the preposition depends on the choice of verb and Ground, thus supporting a distributed view of spatial semantics (Sinha and Kuteva, 1995; Zlatev, 1997, 2003, 2007; Evans and Tyler, 2004).

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Tutton

2021

French Language Studies

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“…The analogical treatment of motion events and other event types is owed to the fact that the goal of a directed motion event can be viewed as a s subtype of result (cf. Beavers, Levin & Wei Tham 2010, Levin & Rappaport Hovav 2019, for overviews, Aurnague 2008, Aurnague 2019, Aurnague & Stosic 2019, Meinschaefer & Kelling 2004, Kopecka 2009, Pourcel & Kopecka 2005, Sarda 2019 inter alia, for motion events in French).…”

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Satellite-framed lexicalization of creation events in French?

Schirakowski

2022

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As a typical verb-framed language, French has only limited ability to combine manner verbs with result-denoting constituents in the VP. Based on an event structural approach, this contribution explores the compatibility of different types of manner verbs with two syntactic means of lexicalizing the product/result of a creation event, namely effected objects and resultative PPs headed by en. Data from two acceptability judgment tasks show the following findings: 1) Manner verbs that do not allow for an effected object canonically can still be coerced into a creation reading as long as no general constraint is violated. 2) Resultative PPs prove as acceptable across verb classes, but acceptability is shown to vary based on the internal makeup of the PP, which embeds either a bare noun or a full DP. Verbs that allow for an effected object are judged as well-formed with PPs of both types, whereas verbs not selecting an effected object are only fully acceptable when a bare noun is embedded in the PP. Creation event lexicalizations that can be regarded as satellite-framed are, thus, not only subject to general structural constraints, but also to more subtle and verb‑specific restrictions.

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Recent advances in the study of motion in French

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Expressing prospective location in French: rethinking Vandeloise’s ‘principle of anticipation’

Expressing prospective location in French: rethinking Vandeloise’s ‘principle of anticipation’

Satellite-framed lexicalization of creation events in French?

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