Filipovic / Jaszczolt Space and Time in Languages and Cultures

Linguistic diversity
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-90-272-7361-1
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 36, 508 Seiten

Reihe: Human Cognitive Processing

This volume offers novel insights into linguistic diversity in the domains of spatial and temporal reference, searching for uniformity amongst diversity. A number of authors discuss expression of dynamic spatial relations cross-linguistically in a vast range of typologically different languages such as Bezhta, French, Hinuq, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Serbian, and Spanish, among others. The contributions on linguistic expression of time all shed new light on pertinent questions regarding this cognitive domain, such as the hotly debated relationship between cross-linguistic differences in talking about time and universal principles of utterance interpretation, modelling temporal inference through aspectual interactions, as well as the complexity of the acquisition of tense-aspect relations in a second language.
The topic of space and time in language and culture is also represented, from a different point of view, in the sister volume Space and Time in Languages and Cultures: Language, culture, and cognition (HCP 37) which discusses spatial and temporal constructs in human language, cognition, and culture in order to come closer to a better understanding of the interaction between shared and individual characteristics of language and culture that shape the way people interact with each other and exchange information about the spatio-temporal constructs that underlie their cognitive, social, and linguistic foundations.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Filipovic, Luna

Jaszczolt, Katarzyna M.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Theoretische Linguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Psycholinguistik, Neurolinguistik, Kognition
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Editors and contributors

Foreword: Space and time in languages, cultures, and cognition

Introduction: Linguistic diversity in the spatio-temporal domain
Luna Filipovic and Kasia M. Jaszczolt

I. Representing location in space and time

1. Spatial relations in Hinuq and Bezhta
Diana Forker

2. Pragmatically disambiguating space: Experimental and cross-linguistic evidence
Didier Maillat

3. The semantics of the perfect progressive in English
Keith Allan

4. Drowning “into” the river in North Sámi: Uses of the illative
Peter Svenonius

5. Cross-linguistic differences in expressing time and universal principles of utterance interpretation
Kasia M. Jaszczolt

6. Modelling temporal reasoning: Aspectual interaction in determiners, adverbs, and dialogue
Alice ter Meulen

7. Language-specific perspectives in reference to time in the discourse of Czech, English, and Hungarian speakers
Norbert Vanek

8. More than “time”: The grammaticalisation of the German tense system and ‘frame of reference’ as a crucial interface between space and time
Sonja Zeman

II. Space and time in language acquisition

9. L2 acquisition of tense-aspect morphology: Lexical aspect, morphological regularity, and transfer
Ho Leung Chan, Jessica Finberg, Willie Costello and Yasuhiro Shirai

10. Motion events in Japanese and English: Does learning a second language change the way you view the world?
Zoe Pei-sui Luk

11. ‘He walked up the pole with arms and legs’: Typology in second language acquisition
Ivana Vidakovic

12. Caused motion events across languages and learner types: A comparison of bilingual first and adult second language acquisition
Helen Engemann, Anne-Katharina Harr (née Ochsenbauer) and Maya Hickmann

13. Spatial prepositions in Italian L2: Universal and language-specific principles
Giovanna Marotta and Linda Meini

14. Expressing simultaneity using aspect: A comparison of oral productions in French L1, Tunisian Arabic L1, and French L2 by Tunisian learners
Inès Saddour

III. Dynamic relations in space and time domains

15. Variation in motion events: Theory and applications
Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano and Alberto Hijazo-Gascón

16. Italian motion constructions: Different functions of ‘particles’
Monica Mosca

17. A temporal approach to motion verbs: ‘Come’ and ‘go’ in English and East Asian languages
Yumiko Nishi

18. The role of grammar in the conceptualisation of ‘progression’: A comparative analysis of Dutch and Japanese event descriptions
Keiko Yoshioka and Béryl Hilberink-Schulpen

19. The locative PP motion construction in Polish: A third lexicalisation pattern?
Wojciech Lewandowski

20. Path salience in motion descriptions in Jaminjung
Dorothea Hoffmann

Contents of the companion volume: Language, culture, and cognition

Name index

Subject index

Language index