Chapter published in:
Broader Perspectives on Motion Event DescriptionsEdited by Yo Matsumoto and Kazuhiro Kawachi
[Human Cognitive Processing 69] 2020
► pp. 205–234
Should Talmy’s motion typology be expanded to visual motion?
An investigation into expressions of motion, agentive motion, and visual motion in Sidaama (Sidamo)
Kazuhiro Kawachi | National Defense Academy of Japan
This chapter addresses the question of whether or
not Talmy’s (1985, 1991, 2000b) motion typology should be expanded
to visual motion (Matsumoto
2001, 2017;
Slobin 2009; Cifuentes-Férez 2014), by
examining how Sidaama (Cushitic; Ethiopia) expresses (i)
self-agentive/non-agentive motion, (ii) agentive motion, and (iii)
fictive motion along a visual emanation path. It shows that although
this language closely follows the verb-framed pattern in expressing
(i) and (ii), it does not do so in expressing (iii), as in many
other verb-framed languages. A possible reason for this is that
(iii) is not conceptualized as a macro-event, whereas Talmy’s
typology is built on expression patterns of macro-events. This study
also observes that there are other types of events to which Talmy’s
typology does not apply, presumably for the same reason: they are
not really macro-events.
Keywords: fictive motion, macro-event, verb-framed language, visual emanation
Published online: 11 August 2020
https://doi.org/10.1075/hcp.69.07kaw
https://doi.org/10.1075/hcp.69.07kaw
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