Typological analysis of Ilami Kurdish verbs of motion

Karimipour, Amir; Rezai, Vali

doi:10.1515/stuf-2016-0017

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“…Building upon the cline of salience, the following languages have more recently found their place in this cline of path salience: Jaminjung (an Australian language), which is inclined towards the low-path-salient languages with its close to 40% of plus-ground clauses (Hoffmann 2012), and Ilami Kurdish as a language that uses approximately 50% plus-ground clauses (Karimipour & Rezai 2016). Furthermore, in Finnish frog stories, plus-ground clauses were used in 87% of clauses (Pasanen & Pakkala-Weckström 2008).…”

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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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An experimental study on deictic verbs and the coding patterns of deixis in Ilami Kurdish: A comparative study

Karimipour

Sharifi

2021

Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis

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Conducting a video-based experiment in English, Japanese and Thai, Matsumoto et al. (2017) report that deictic verbs are more frequently used when the motion is not just toward the speaker but also into his/her functional space (i.e. functional HERE of the speaker) defined by limits of interaction and visibility as well as when the motion is accompanied by an interactional behaviour of the Figure such as greeting the speaker. They claim that directional venitive prepositional phrases (henceforth PPs) like toward me do not exhibit this feature, though. This paper aims to reevaluate these proposals (Matsumoto et al. 2017) in Ilami Kurdish (henceforth IK), thereby figuring out whether the functional nature of deictic verbs observed in the three studied languages is also attested in this dialect. In line with the findings reported by Matsumoto et al. (2017), results of this research reveal that the semantics of venitive verbs of motion in IK is spatial and functional at the same time. In other words, these verbs are more often used in the verbal descriptions of the IK participants, when the Figure shares a functional space with the speaker induced by limits of interaction and visibility, and also when he/she smiles at or greets the speaker. Importantly, results show that venitive PPs in IK can be functional in nature or add some functional meaning (in addition to their spatial meaning) to the verb, so that participants utilize venitive adpositions along with the venitive verb to add emphasis on the kind of motion (to be a venitive one) and express that the Figure would be “very close” to the speaker at the end of motion.

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Typological analysis of Ilami Kurdish verbs of motion

Abstract: This paper attempts to assess motion events in Ilami Kurdish through Talmy’s binary typology (1985. Lexicalization patterns: Semantic structure in lexical forms. In Timothy Shopen (ed.),

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Speed as a dimension of manner in Estonian frog stories

Speed as a dimension of manner in Estonian frog stories

An experimental study on deictic verbs and the coding patterns of deixis in Ilami Kurdish: A comparative study

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