The Semantics of Dynamic Space in French

Descriptive, experimental and formal studies on motion expression

Editors

Michel Aurnague

Dejan Stosic

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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

https://doi.org/10.1075/hcp.66

Table of Contents

Contributors | pp. vii–viii

Acknowledgments | p. ix

Recent advances in the study of motion in French: A survey

Michel Aurnague and Dejan Stosic | pp. 2–28

Part I. Arguments, modifiers, asymmetry of motion

About asymmetry of motion in French: Some properties and a principle

Michel Aurnague | pp. 32–65

French motion verbs: Insights into the status of locative PPs

Laure Sarda | pp. 68–107

From il s’envole hors to il sort du nid : A typological change in French motion expressions

Benjamin 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 morphology

Dejan 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 typology

Efstathia Soroli, Maya Hickmann and Henriette Hendriks | pp. 250–288

Structure of French expression of motion: Gesture-speech relation, between-language comparison and developmental perspective

Katerina 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 lexicon

Anaïs Lefeuvre-Halftermeyer, Richard Moot and Christian Retoré | pp. 324–352

Geoparsing and geocoding places in a dynamic space context: The case of hiking descriptions

Mauro Gaio and Ludovic Moncla | pp. 354–386

Subject index | p. 387

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Tutton, Mark

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