Talking about motion : a crosslinguistic investigation of lexicalization patterns / Luna Filipović
This is a corpus-based study of lexicalization of motion events in Serbo-Croatian and English, with contrasting examples from Spanish, French, Italian, Mandarin Chinese and Albanian. Talmy's typology (1985) provides the backdrop for the analysis and the focus is on intratypological differences...
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| Series: | Studies in language companion series ;
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Table of Contents:
- Talking about Motion; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; dedication page; Table of contents; Acknowledgments; quote Hjemslev; 1. Introduction; 2. The point of departure; 3. The proposed approach and central assumptions; 4. The heart of the matter; 5. Data analysis for English; 6. Talking about motion in Serbo-Croatian; 7. Moving on; 8. Conclusion; Bibliography; Dictionaries; Corpora; References; Appendix 1; Appendix 2; Index; The Studies in Language Companion Series.