30.3062, Books: The Semantics of Dynamic Space in French: Aurnague, Stosic (eds.)

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Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2019 15:39:26
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: The Semantics of Dynamic Space in French: Aurnague, Stosic (eds.)

 


Title: The Semantics of Dynamic Space in French 
Subtitle: Descriptive, experimental and formal studies on motion expression 
Series Title: Human Cognitive Processing 66  

Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/hcp.66 


Editor: Michel Aurnague
Editor: Dejan Stosic

Electronic: ISBN:  9789027262509 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027262509 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 83.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027262509 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 99.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027203205 Pages: 396 Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027203205 Pages: 396 Price: U.K. £ 83.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027203205 Pages: 396 Price: Europe EURO 104.94


Abstract:

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.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
                     Semantics

Subject Language(s): French (fra)


Written In: English  (eng)

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