Revising Talmy’s typological classification of complex event constructions

Croft, William; Barðdal, Jóhanna; Hollmann, Willem B.; Sotirova, Violeta; Taoka, Chiaki

doi:10.1075/cal.10.09cro

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“…12 We will conclude this section with a brief observation that the natural language typology proposed by Leonard Talmy is essentially constructional, since it proposes language pre-set structural templates for motion encoding as the basis for language classification. This is closely aligned with the notion of construction in traditional Construction Grammar (Goldberg 1995, Croft et al 2010 where constructions are viewed as systematic pairings of meaning and structure, or as Croft (Croft et al 2010: 234) …”

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Contrasting Intransitive Motion in English and Serbian: How Do We Build ’sound’ Events?

Milivojević

2017

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Abstract. The paper addresses intransitive motion constructions in English and Serbian with the initial aim of identifying and explaining the structural (construction) templates, which are available in the two languages for intransitive motion encoding. The analysis is based on the well-known proposal by Leonard Talmy (1975Talmy ( , 1985Talmy ( , 1991Talmy ( , 2000 that languages fall into two main types as to how they encode motion events. Special attention is devoted to English and Serbian verbs of emission (VE) (specifically verbs of sound and verbs of light emission), regarding their potential to surface as verbs of motion and combine with directional phrases within motion event constructions. The analysis aims at contrasting both verbal sub-subclasses in English andSerbian for the purpose of identifying the relevant points of similarities and divergences between the two language systems being analysed. The theoretical claims of the analysis are empirically supported by a contrastive sentential corpus which further promotes the claim that the potential of VE is wider in scope than was initially proposed by Levin (1993).

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Contrasting Intransitive Motion in English and Serbian: How Do We Build ’sound’ Events?

Milivojević

2017

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“…Languages that use these constructions relatively often have a negative score on this component and are situated in the lower half of Figure 2. Figure 1 and 2 illustrate the need to classify languages on a scale of motion event encoding construction usage, rather than within a dichotomy, as has also been suggested by Beavers et al (2010), Croft et al (2010), andSlobin (2004). Differentiation within the 'satellite-framed' group is mostly due to the diverse use of the deictic construction and the deictic verb-framed construction.…”

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“…These two types of constructions, the verb-framed construction and the satellite-framed construction, as well as several other different types of motion constructions, have been attested in a range of different languages spoken around the world. Languages typically make use of more than one motion event encoding construction, as has been shown by Beavers et al (2010), Croft et al (2010), Slobin (2004), and others. However, linguists usually characterize languages as 'satellite-framed' or 'verb-framed', depending on which strategy is most frequently used in unmarked settings.…”

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The correlation between motion event encoding and path verb lexicon size in the Indo-European language family

Verkerk

2014

Folia Linguistica

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There have been opposing views on the possibility of a relationship between motion event encoding and the size of the path verb lexicon. Özçalışkan (2004) has proposed that verb-framed and satellite-framed languages should approximately have the same number of path verbs, whereas a review of some of the literature suggests that verb-framed languages typically have a bigger path verb lexicon than satelliteframed languages. In this article I demonstrate that evidence for this correlation can be found through phylogenetic comparative analysis of parallel corpus data from twenty Indo-European languages.

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“…Without denying the importance of Talmy's typology, several questions were asked by researches regarding the VLs and SLs dichotomy, which helped deepen the investigation of the motion events as a complex phenomenon. Thus, some critics questioned the way Talmy defined the notion of "satellite" and stressed the need for another approach to satellites and prepositions (Filipović, 2007;Croft, 2010). Other authors such as Slobin and Bohnemeyer (2004;2007) emphasized the need of considering languages that do not fit into Talmy's binary typology, the so-called equipollently-framed languages, thus suggesting a threemember typology (i.e.…”

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Encoding Path in Motion Events: Boundary-Crossing as a Relevant Typological Criterion

Bodean-Vozian

Cincilei

2015

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Summary. Talmy's (1975Talmy's ( , 1985Talmy's ( , 1991Talmy's ( , 2000 seminal work on motion events representation in languages that led to significant typological distinctions is primarily based on the differences in encoding (framing) of the Path, as one of the basic semantic components of such events, either in the V(erb stem) or in the S(atellite) -which accounts for the proposed typological language dichotomy V-framed (VLs) and S-framed languages (SLs). Although the above distinction is a very important one, having implications at the level of syntactic structure, crosslinguistic data indicate to some variations that further prompted researchers to question a clear-cut binary typological opposition. Thus, more thorough data from Romance languages (in addition to Spanish, French and Italian) led to re-considering their status as VLs and rather considering them belonging to the third class of "split" languages (Talmy). The aim of the paper is to analyze the place of Romanian in this typological classification, through making observation on the Path representation in motion events in contrasted narrative texts translated from English (a SL) into Romanian. The hypothesis is that Romanian might claim a mixed typological status, eventually belonging to the class of "split" languages based on the assumption that, first, it is not so poor in manner of motion verbs (MmV) as it is presumably the case of VLs (see the alternative labels sometimes attached to SLs vs. VLs, respectively -manner-rich vs. manner-poor languages) and, second, it does not exclude the possibility of using complex Path as satellite to a MmV, particularly boundary-crossing, which can serve as a test to determine the typological class of language (e.g., a țâșnit de după perdea (lit. rushed from behind the curtain) -'rushed out from behind the curtain'; a lunecat de pe acoperiș (lit. slipped from on the roof) -'slipped from the roof'. In this respect, the paper aims at focusing on the nature of the second preposition.

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Revising Talmy’s typological classification of complex event constructions

Cited by 167 publications

References 20 publications

Contrasting Intransitive Motion in English and Serbian: How Do We Build ’sound’ Events?

Contrasting Intransitive Motion in English and Serbian: How Do We Build ’sound’ Events?

The correlation between motion event encoding and path verb lexicon size in the Indo-European language family

Encoding Path in Motion Events: Boundary-Crossing as a Relevant Typological Criterion

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