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Jiménez Martínez-Losa, Noelia. 2007. Towards a typology of fictive motion events: review of existing proposals and presentation of new perspectives. Studies of the Chinese Language 17 : 562–569. 8 pp.
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Article in journal
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English
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Abstract
The present paper attempts to revise and shed new light on the study of fictive motion events. It is within the field of Cognitive Linguistics where fictive motion has received a greater attention; more specifically the author addresses Talmy (2000) and Matlock's (2004) views. Matlock (2004b) argues for the existence of a typology of fictive motion constructions, further subdivided into: a) fictive motion constructions which make use of paths ordinarily associated with motion and which tolerate manner verbs, as in 'The highway crawls through the city' (Matlock 2004b: 231), b) fictive motion constructions in which the trajector has no association with motion, f.i. 'The table goes from the kitchen to the sliding door' (Matlock 2004b: 232). However, Jiménez Martínez-Losa, not quite agreeing with this typology, argues that the MOTION metaphor, in combination with other Idealized Cognitive Models (metonymy and image-schemas), underlies the semantic configuration of the fictive motion. Basing her ideas on an exhaustive analysis of corpus data, our author proposes a new taxonomy of fictive motion constructions that is based on the number of arguments that the motion verb may take.
(Alba Luzondo Oyón, Ruiz de Mendoza Group)