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The Semantics of Dynamic Space in French
Descriptive, experimental and formal studies on motion expression
Editors
Research on the semantics of spatial markers in French is known mainly through Vandeloise’s (1986, 1991) work on static prepositions. However, interest in the expression of space in French goes back to the mid-1970s and focused first on verbs denoting changes in space, whose syntactic properties were related to specific semantic distinctions, such as the opposition between “movement” and “displacement”. This volume provides an overview of recent studies on the semantics of dynamic space in French and addresses important questions about motion expression, among which “goal bias” and asymmetry of motion, the status of locative PPs, the expression of manner, fictive or non-actual motion. Descriptive, experimental and formal or computational analyses are presented, providing complementary perspectives on the main issue. The volume is intended for researchers and advanced students wishing to learn about both spatial semantics in French and recent debates on the representation of motion events in language and cognition.
[Human Cognitive Processing, 66] 2019. ix, 396 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 26 July 2019
Published online on 26 July 2019
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
- Contributors | pp. vii–viii
- Acknowledgments | pp. ix–9
- Recent advances in the study of motion in French: A surveyMichel Aurnague and Dejan Stosic | pp. 2–28
- Part I. Arguments, modifiers, asymmetry of motion
- About asymmetry of motion in French: Some properties and a principleMichel Aurnague | pp. 32–65
- French motion verbs: Insights into the status of locative PPsLaure Sarda | pp. 68–107
- From il s’envole hors to il sort du nid: A typological change in French motion expressionsBenjamin Fagard | pp. 110–138
- Part II. Manner of motion and fictive motion
- Manner as a cluster concept: What does lexical coding of manner of motion tell us about manner?Dejan Stosic | pp. 142–177
- Motion verbs and evaluative morphologyDejan Stosic and Dany Amiot | pp. 180–215
- Fictive motion in French: Where do the data lead?Fabien Cappelli | pp. 218–246
- Part III. Psycholinguistic issues
- Casting an eye on motion events: Eye tracking and its implications for linguistic typologyEfstathia Soroli, Maya Hickmann and Henriette Hendriks | pp. 250–288
- Structure of French expression of motion: Gesture-speech relation, between-language comparison and developmental perspectiveKaterina Fibigerova and Michèle Guidetti | pp. 290–319
- Part IV. Formal and computational aspects of motion-based narrations
- A computational account of virtual travelers in the Montagovian generative lexiconAnaïs Lefeuvre-Halftermeyer, Richard Moot and Christian Retoré | pp. 324–352
- Geoparsing and geocoding places in a dynamic space context: The case of hiking descriptionsMauro Gaio and Ludovic Moncla | pp. 354–386
- Subject index | pp. 387–396
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