Table of contents
ForewordVII
Chapter 1.Introduction: The description of motion events: On deixis, asymmetries and constructions1
Part I.Motion and deixis
Chapter 2.What does deixis tell us about motion typology: Linguistic or cultural variations of speakers’ “here” space vis-à-vis perceived physical events25
Chapter 3.Linguistic representations of visual motion: A crosslinguistic experimental study43
Chapter 4.Deictic directionals revisited in the light of advances in typology69
Chapter 5.On a few instances where deictic directionals confound expectations95
Part II.Motion and asymmetries
Chapter 6.Implicit landmarks and opposite polarities in French motion predicates125
Chapter 7.Source–Goal asymmetry in Standard Chinese: A comparative study of spontaneous and caused motion events149
Chapter 8.Source–Goal asymmetry in German: A corpus study comparing intentional and non-intentional motion events173
Part III.Motion and constructions
Chapter 9.Co-event relations in Swedish motion constructions189
Chapter 10.The description of transitive directed motion in Lakhota (Siouan)209
Chapter 11.Constraints constrained: Equipollent verb constructions in Emai235
Chapter 12.Lexical aspect and morphosyntactic cohesion between motion verbs and spatial particles in Homeric Greek257
Index273
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