Edited by Juliana Goschler and Anatol Stefanowitsch
The linguistic typology of motion event encoding is one of the central topics in Cognitive Linguistics. A vast body of typological, contrastive, and psycholinguistic research has shown the potential, but also the limitations of the original distinction between verb-framed and satellite-framed… read more
The encoding of motion is a particularly interesting domain of German-Turkish language contact. German is a “satellite-framed language” that easily combines manner-of-motion verbs with path expressions outside of the verb stem. Turkish, on the other hand, is considered a “verb-framed language”,… read more
It is generally assumed that the typological characteristics of a language regarding the encoding of motion events have an influence on the usage preferences of native speakers of this language. These preferences could also be reflected in a second language with different typological… read more
In this chapter, I present observations of recurrent motifs and metaphors in literature that point to a culturally conventionalized idea of the heart as the seat of emotions and personality. A corpus study shows that this is not only a phenomenon of literary language, but also a systematically and… read more
