Chapter published in:
Broader Perspectives on Motion Event DescriptionsEdited by Yo Matsumoto and Kazuhiro Kawachi
[Human Cognitive Processing 69] 2020
► pp. 281–316
Neutral and specialized path coding
Toward a new typology of path-coding devices and languages
Yo Matsumoto | National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics
The purpose of this chapter is to present a new
typology of path coding used in motion event descriptions in various
languages. The crucial starting point for the new typology is how
Path is expressed across different constructional types of motion
event representations. The constructional types considered are
Self-motion, Caused motion, and Emanation. The study suggests that
path-coding devices can be divided into two major kinds: one kind
with broad distributional potential across different constructional
types of representations, and the other specialized for a particular
constructional type of representation. Languages tend to have
preferences toward adopting which kind of path-coding device is
predominantly used. Languages that utilize the former can be called
neutral path-coding languages, and those utilizing the latter,
specialized path-coding languages. Path and Deixis coding in several
languages are examined in these terms. Some patterns of
intralinguistic and interlinguistic variations are also
discussed.
Keywords: caused motion, deixis, representation type, self-motion, visual emanation
Published online: 11 August 2020
https://doi.org/10.1075/hcp.69.09mat
https://doi.org/10.1075/hcp.69.09mat
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